Giakaniki, Maria J.: - Maria Giakaniki is an independent scholar and editor-in-chief of Ars Nocturna, a small publishing house in Athens that focuses on Gothic fiction. Her Greek translations include J. S. Le Fanu's Carmilla and R. L. Stevenson's Olalla; she has also compiled and co-translated Gothic Tales by Victorian Women Writers and Gothic Tales by Modern Women Writers, as well as edited the Greek edition of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James. She has written reviews for literary journals such as the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies and The Green Book, and delivered papers in international conferences of the Gothic.