Rebecca Janicker is a senior lecturer in film and media studies at the University of Portsmouth. She received her PhD in American studies from the University of Nottingham in 2014. She is the author of The Literary Haunted House: Lovecraft, Matheson, King and the Horror in Between (McFarland 2015) and the editor of Reading ‘American Horror Story’: Essays on the Television Franchise (McFarland 2017) and The Scientist in Popular Culture: Playing God and Working Wonders ( Lexington 2022). Her publications focus on the fiction of Robert Bloch, Stephen King, Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft, as well as on horror in film, TV, theatre and comics.