Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he co-leads the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He has edited six anthologies for British Library Publishing.

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish author and critic; though best known for the Gothic horror novel Dracula (1897), he also wrote a number of other books such as The Watter's Mou (1895) and The Mystery of the Sea (1902).