Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre

David J. Skal (1952-2024) was one of the foremost authorities on horror in popular culture. His many books include Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen; The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror; Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween; and Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula.

Elias Savada is a film historian, copyright researcher, and founder and director of the Motion Picture Information Service in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a film critic for Film International, a contributor to the Mid-Atlantic Brew News, and compiled the The American Film Institute Catalog: Film Beginnings, 1893-1910.