Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. His publications include the monographs Contemporary Body Horror (CUP, 2024), Gothic Cinema (Routledge, 2020), Horror Film and Affect (Routledge, 2016) and Body Gothic (UWP, 2014) and the edited collections Graveyard Gothic (MUP, 2024), Twenty-First-Century Gothic (EUP, 2019) and Horror: A Literary History (British Library, 2016). Xavier is co-president of the International Gothic Association and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies.