Josh Hitchens is a Philadelphia-based theater director, actor, and playwright. She is also the current Web Officer for the International Gothic Association. Her publications include a chapter on Jewish vampires in Horror and Religion (UWP, July 2019), an article on witches, Jewish persecution, and sexual violence in Ivanhoe (in Bible and Critical Theory, 2019), and a forthcoming chapter exploring Supernatural and police procedurals. Along with Lauren Nixon she is co-organiser of Sheffield Gothic and the Reimagining the Gothic project, and is also lead organiser of the Gothic Bible project which hosted a ‘ Buffy and the Bible’ conference in 2019 – complete with an evening Buffy singalong. Mary Going is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, exploring depictions of Jewish characters, myths and legends in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century literature. Through it all he has been a lifelong reader, fan, and collector of all things Dracula. He currently resides with his wife, daughter, and son in Bensalem where he operates a BBQ catering company with his brother, and leads the instrumental band Pleated Gazelle. Tucker has been a musician, an audio engineer, an automotive machinist, and a caterer. Tucker Christine first picked up the novel Dracula as an act of defiance in the third grade. When not participating in reading marathons, he can usually be found at literary-themed cocktail parties.

In a former life, he taught monster books at a Philadelphia University. Pettit is the Sunstein Manager of Public Programs at The Rosenbach.

Richard knew who his money was on in a scrap.Edward G. The flathead assessed the white-haired girl. Thrown out of the party, she must fight her way back up through a building that seems designed to destroy her in a thousand ways. And vampire schoolgirl Nezumi – sword-wielding agent of the Diogenes Club – finds herself alone, pitted against the world’s deadliest creatures. The distinguished guests are held hostage by yakuza assassins and Transylvanian mercenaries. But the party is crashed by less enlightened souls.

Vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a New Year’s Eve party in Daikaiju Plaza – a building in the shape of a giant mechanical dragon – in Tokyo, attended by world leaders of technology, finance and culture.

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