Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University. He has published on a range of topics, including The Language of Film (2016), Music, Memory and Memoir (2019), Adaptation for Screenwriters (2019), Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition (2023) and The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2023). He is currently co-editing the forthcoming Bloomsbury publication, Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fiction. He also leads the Hauntology and Spectrality Research Group at York St John.