Matthew Harle works in the BFI Southbank's Television Programming
Unit, holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, and has
taught English and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck and King's College
London.
James Machin is a writer and researcher and coeditor of Faunus, the
journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen. He has published work in
journals including Textual Practice, and taught at Birkbeck,
University of London, and the Royal College of Art.
James David Rudkin (born 29 June 1936) is an English playwright.
Following the success of his first play Afore Night Come (1962),
Rudkin translated works by Aeschylus, Roger Vitrac, the libretto of
Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron, and wrote the book to the Western
Theatre Ballet's Sun into Darkness (Sadlers Wells 1963) and the
libretto for Gordon Crosse's comic opera, The Grace of Todd.
Rudkin's major works for the stage include Ashes (1974), The Sons
of Light (written in 1965 though not staged until 1975), The
Triumph of Death (1981) and The Saxon Shore (1986). His
associations with the RSC also led him to translate the Hippolytus
of Euripides for the company in 1978, having translated the
author's Hecuba for radio three years previously. He has written
for television, including The Stone Dance (1963), Children Playing
(1967), House of Character (1968) (staged by the Birmingham Rep as
No Title in 1974), Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage (1969),
Bypass (1972), Atrocity (1973), the Alan Clarke-directed Penda's
Fen (1974), and Artemis 81 (1981); for radio, including No
Accounting for Taste (1960), Gear Change (1967), Cries from
Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin (1973) (also staged by
the RSC); and for cinema, including Fran ois Truffaut's Fahrenheit
451 (1966). He has also written a volume in the British Film
Institute's "Film Classics" series, a 2005 study of Carl Theodor
Dreyer's Vampyr.
Sukhdev Sandhu is the author of, among other books, London Calling-
How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City, I'll Get My Coat, and
Night Haunts. He lives in New york and London, and writes for the
London Review of Books, Modern Painters and the TLS. He is the
award-winning chiefvfilm critic of the Daily Telegraph and
Associate Professor of English literature at New York
University.
Roger Luckhurst is a British writer and academic. He is Professor
in Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Department of English
and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and was
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia University in 2016. He
works on Victorian literature, contemporary literature, Gothic and
weird fiction, trauma studies, and speculative/science fiction.
Luckhurst is notable for his introductions and editorships to the
Oxford World's Classics series volumes -- Late Victorian Gothic
Tales, Dracula, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Portrait
of a Lady, H.P. Lovecraft's Classic Horror Tales, King Solomon's
Mines, and The Time Machine -- and for his books on J. G. Ballard
(1997), The Invention of Telepathy (2002), Science Fiction (2005)
The Trauma Question (2008), The Mummy's Curse- The True Story of a
Dark Fantasy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Zombies- A
Cultural History (Reaktion Press, 2015). He has also written two
books for the British Film Institute classic film series on The
Shining and Alien. Luckhurst has written pieces for The Guardian
and features for the film journal Sight and Sound and wrote and
presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary about mummy curses in 2012.
He has been an occasional film reviewer and commentator for the
radio programmes Front Row and Free Thinking.
Adam Scovell is a writer and filmmaker from The Wirral, currently
based in London. He is studying for a PhD in film music and
transcendental style at the University of Liverpool and Goldsmiths.
He has produced film and art criticism for more than 20 digital and
print publications including The Times and The Guardian, runs the
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