STACEY ABBOTT 

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Stacey Abbott is Professor of Film and Television at Northumbria University and a member of their Horror Studies Research Group. She is a recognised expert on the horror genre, regularly appearing on radio, television, and podcasts, and has given public lectures on horror and Gothic film at the British Film Institute, the British Library, The Old Operating Theatre London, St. Bart’s Pathology Museum, and the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. 

 

Her research focuses on horror across film and television, with a particular interest in the evolution of the vampire and zombie on screen. She has written on the role of special effects in horror, science fiction, and cult film and television.  She is the author of the BFI Film Classic on Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark (Bloomsbury 2020), Celluloid Vampires (2007), and Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (2016). She is currently writing a book on Horror Animation.