Sean Moreland teaches in the English Department at the University of Ottawa. Their essays, primarily focused on Gothic, horror and weird fiction in its literary, cinematic, and sequential art guises, have appeared in many collections and journals, most recently Vastarien, Horror Literature Through History, Lovecraftian Proceedings 3, and The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. They recently edited The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation and Transformation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and New Directions in Supernatural Horror: The Critical Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft (Palgrave, 2018.) They also write short fiction and poetry, including recent publications in Dissections, Lackington’s, Black Treacle and Over The Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins._x000D_
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They are in the midst of a monograph, tentatively titled Repulsive Influences: A Historical Poetics of Atomic Horror, which examines how horror literature since the early modern period has interwoven with the reception of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura in shaping popular anxieties about materialism, mortality and madness. They occasionally interview, review, and blog about weirdness at Postscripts to Darkness (www.pstdarkness.com)