Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Nicholas Diak and Michele Brittany!

Nicholas and Michele have co-edited "Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays" together!

Nicholas Diak is a pop culture scholar who specializes in Italian genre cinema, contemporary sword and sandal films, industrial music, 80s retroism, and H. P. Lovecraft studies. His first book, The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s, was published in late 2017 while his second book, co-edited with Michele Brittany, Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays released earlier this year.

Michele Brittany is an independent popular culture scholar and is the editor of Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre and James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy. Michele is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, co-chair of the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, and co-host of the twice monthly podcast, H.P. Lovecast. She has presented at Wondercon Anaheim as part of the Comics Arts Conference series and moderates panels at a variety of comic con events. She is a member of Horror Writers Association.