Horror fans from around the world have made Daily Dead their destination for coverage of the horror entertainment industry. Created by Jonathan James in 2010, Daily Dead is home to insightful special features, breaking news, live festival coverage, and interviews with some of the biggest names in film and television.

Independently owned and operated since its inception, Daily Dead showcases a staff that has written thousands of articles about the past, present, and future of horror. Our unique voices and perspectives on the genre make Daily Dead more than just a site that reports on horror, but one that celebrates it as well. Get to know Daily Dead’s team by checking out our staff list below.

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  • Jonathan James
    Jonathan James - Editor-in-Chief

    After spending more than 10 years as a consultant in the tech and entertainment industry, Jonathan James launched Daily Dead in 2010 to share his interest in horror and sci-fi. Since then, it has grown into an online magazine with a staff of writers that provide daily news, reviews, interviews, and special features.

    As the Editor-in-Chief of Daily Dead, Jonathan is responsible for bringing the latest horror news to millions of readers from around the world. He is also consulted with as an expert on zombies in entertainment and pop culture, providing analyses of the zombie sub-genre to newspapers, radio stations, and convention attendees.

  • Heather Wixson
    Heather Wixson - Managing Editor

    Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.

  • Derek Anderson
    Derek Anderson - Senior Editor, News & Features

    Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.

    When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.

  • Tamika Jones
    Tamika Jones - Senior Contributor

    Tamika hails from North Beach, Maryland, a tiny town inches from the Chesapeake Bay.She knew she wanted to be an actor after reciting a soliloquy by Sojourner Truth in front of her entire fifth grade class. Since then, she's appeared in over 20 film and television projects. In addition to acting, Tamika is the Indie Spotlight manager for Daily Dead, where she brings readers news on independent horror projects every weekend.

    The first horror film Tamika watched was Child's Play. Being eight years old at the time, she remembers being so scared when Chucky came to life that she projectile vomited. It's tough for her to choose only one movie as her favorite horror film, so she picked two: Nosferatu and The Stepford Wives (1975).

  • Scott Drebit
    Scott Drebit - Senior Columnist

    Scott Drebit lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is happily married (back off ladies) with 2 grown kids. He has had a life-long, torrid, love affair with Horror films. He grew up watching Horror on VHS, and still tries to rewind his Blu-rays. Some of his favourite horror films include Phantasm, Alien, Burnt Offerings, Phantasm, Zombie, Halloween, and Black Christmas. Oh, and Phantasm.

  • Patrick Bromley
    Patrick Bromley - Senior Contributor

    Patrick lives in Chicago, where he has been writing about film since 2004. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society, Patrick's writing also appears on About.com, DVDVerdict.com and fthismovie.net, the site he runs and hosts a weekly podcast.

    He has been an obsessive fan of horror and genre films his entire life, watching, re-watching and studying everything from the Universal Monsters of the '30s and '40s to the modern explosion of indie horror. Some of his favorites include Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931), Dawn of the Dead (1978), John Carpenter's The Thing and The Funhouse. He is a lover of Tobe Hooper and his favorite Halloween film is part 4. He knows how you feel about that. He has a great wife and two cool kids, who he hopes to raise as horror nerds.

  • Bryan Christopher
    Bryan Christopher - Senior Columnist

    Horror movies have been a part of Bryan’s life as far back as he can remember. While families were watching E.T. and going to Disneyland, Bryan and his mom were watching Nightmare on Elm Street and he was dragging his dad to go to the local haunted hayride.

    He loves everything about the horror community, particularly his fellow fans. He’s just as happy listening to someone talk about their favorite horror flick as he is watching his own, which include Hellraiser, Phantasm, Stir of Echoes, and just about every Friday the 13th movie ever made, which the exception of part VIII because that movie is terrible.

  • Emily von Seele
    Emily von Seele - Senior Contributor

    Emily von Seele hails from Seattle, where it rains a lot, which gives her plenty of excuses to stay inside and watch movies. She has written for Bloody Disgusting, Daily Dead, the Women in Horror Annual and Grim Magazine, and is co-host of the Dead Ringers podcast. You can usually catch Emily on Twitter (@horrorellablog), where she has been known to gab excessively about movies and tweet adorable pics of her two cats - seriously, they are the cutest ever.

  • Sara Clements
    Sara Clements - Senior Contributor

    Sara Clements has been a freelance film/TV writer since 2017. She's from Canada and holds a degree in journalism. She has written for both print and online and is an editor for Next Best Picture. Her love of horror started quite late as her first taste of it (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) resulted in her sleeping in her mother's room for a year and having to go see a therapist. She got over that trauma, thankfully, and now loves immersing herself in a genre she's missed out on.

  • Monte Yazzie
    Monte Yazzie - Film Critic

    Monte is an independent filmmaker from Arizona and a film reviewer for a North Phoenix publication. He has spent most of his life watching, re-watching, analyzing, and examining film of all genres, though his film fondness remains loyally with horror, science fiction, and film classics.

    When he isn’t keeping up with his first passion, his lovely wife and young child, you can find him working on film projects or searching for rare and out-of-print films for his ever-growing collection. He is actively involved in the Arizona film community, offering support to independent venues, local filmmakers, and film festivals.

  • Zena Dixon
    Zena Dixon - Special Guest Contributor

    Zena Dixon is your best friend who loves horror movies! She has been writing about all things creepy and horrific for nine years at RealQueenofHorror.com.

  • Michelle Swope
    Michelle Swope - Contributing Writer

    Michelle credits seeing Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street in the theater as the reason she’s a lifelong horror fan. For the past several years she’s been writing film reviews, conducting interviews, and moderating live panels for various online sites, while also advocating for accessibility and inclusivity in journalism, as a disabled woman working in the horror community. She was previously a featured writer at DreadCentral.com and has also written for Ghastly Grinning, F This Movie!, Nightmarish Conjurings, Horrornews.net, and several other sites. She has also been published in the online zine We Are Horror and wrote an essay for the Blu-ray release of the film Dinner in America for Arrow Films Video. She now resides in Wilmington, NC where she is a member of the North Carolina Film Critics Association.

  • James Doherty
    James Doherty - Senior Contributor

    James is a life-long horror fan since coming across Halloween on late-night TV, when he was 9 years-old. He was too scared to watch it all the way through, so when things got too scary he changed the channel. When he worked up the courage he would switch back to Halloween. This happened several times. He has previously written for GoreZone magazine in the UK and the Evolution of Horror.

  • Eugenio Ercolani
    Eugenio Ercolani - Senior Contributor

    Eugenio Ercolani is a film historian and leading expert on Italian genre cinema. He has worked for a number of monthly magazines and websites and is the author of Darkening the Italian Screen (McFarland) and Cruising (Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University Press). Ercolani is responsible for dozens of featurettes and other special content for numerous home video labels, both American and European. He lives between Rome and London.

  • Caitlin Kennedy
    Caitlin Kennedy - Senior Contributor

    Caitlin is a sweater enthusiast, film critic, and lean, mean writing machine based in Austin, TX. Her love of film began with being shown Rosemary’s Baby at a particularly impressionable age and she’s been hooked ever since. She loves a good bourbon and hates people who talk in movies. Caitlin has been writing since 2014 and you can find her work on Film Inquiry, The Financial Diet, Nightmarish Conjurings, and many others. Follow her on Twitter at @CaitDoes.

  • Justina Bonilla
    Justina Bonilla - Contributing Writer

    Justina Bonilla is a freelance writer from Orange County, California, home to Disneyland. And yes, her favorite Disneyland ride is The Haunted Mansion. In her free time, she volunteers as a blog writer for the non-profit arthouse The Frida Cinema.

  • Leticia Lopez
    Leticia Lopez - Contributing Writer

    Leticia Lopez is an entertainment writer who covers horror news and movies. Her favorite subgenres are folk-horror, 1970s vampires, and Giallo. Her work has appeared in FANGORIA, The Lineup, and more. Follow her on Twitter @leticia_writes

  • Laura Riordan
    Laura Riordan - Contributing Writer

    Laura Riordan does not exist. She is, however, on Twitter at ernst_lubitch where you can find her posts about director's filmographies and some okay memes. She lives in Maine with two cats and an indeterminable amount of kitchen appliances and physical media.

  • Cass Clarke
    Cass Clarke - Contributing Writer

    Cass Clarke is /Film's feature editor and writer, covering all the nerdy things in comics, tv, & movies. Horror is their first love, & they've had the joy of interviewing genre icons like Clancy Brown, Greg Nicotero, & Keith David as well as rising talents like The Queen of Black Magic's Joko Anwar. They have an MFA in Publishing from Emerson College & have previously published non-fiction & fiction works in a variety of places, including Catapult, Wicked Horror, & Electric Literature. In their free time, they co-host a monthly horror podcast called Horror Hangover, play rhythm guitar in a goth-punk cover band, & teach Taekwon-do to kids. You can follow their work @cass__clarke

  • Matt Donato
    Matt Donato - Contributing Writer

    Matt Donato is a Los Angeles-based film critic currently published on SlashFilm, Fangoria, Bloody Disgusting, and anywhere else he’s allowed to spread the gospel of Demon Wind. He is also a member of the Critics Choice Association. Definitely don’t feed him after midnight.

  • John Duarte
    John Duarte - Contributing Writer

    Born and Raised in the beautiful San Fernando Valley. He's a movie geek and physical media lover. He not only writes for Daily Dead, he's a filmmaker. He co-founded his production company Misfits of Cinema Productions. During his downtime, He enjoys his time chilling at the New Beverly Cinema & catching screenings at the American Cinematheque (Aero Theater and Los Feliz 3)

  • Kyle Lemmon
    Kyle Lemmon - Contributor

    Kyle Lemmon grew up in Loomis, CA watching The Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, The Outer Limits, and any other piece of sci-fi or horror entertainment he could get his hands on. He studied Journalism and English at Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley and currently works in the video game industry. His writing can be found in Pitchfork, Spin, FLOOD Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, and the Sacramento Bee. Kyle lives north of San Diego with his wife, two daughters, and a wily Golden Retriever named Luna. He tries to carve out time each weekend to listen to at least one new album.

  • Ray Marshall
    Ray Marshall - Contributing Writer

    Ray Marshall’s affection for horror began as an act of childhood rebellion against his priggish parents. Instead of girlie mags, he hid Stephen King books. Instead of watching The Wonderful World of Disney on television, he watched Nightmare Theatre. These days, he fulfills his adulting duties by teaching Gothic literature and film studies. In his free time, he lobbies Congress to declare Halloween a paid federal holiday, and he ponders why his homicidal cat hates him. Follow him on Twitter @MrRayMarshall

  • Brandon Stanwyck
    Brandon Stanwyck - Contributing Writer

    Brandon Stanwyck is a gay Dallas-based writer, podcaster, and member of the International Film Society Critics who fancies the finer things in life—like oatmeal creme pies and Malbecs. Before becoming a reviewer, he spent six years working on movie sets. You can read and hear more of his opinions on his Fearsome Queer blog or Academy Queens podcast.

  • Lindsay Traves
    Lindsay Traves - Contributing Writer

    Lindsay is a writer, blogger and columnist based in the Big Smoke. After submitting her Bachelor’s thesis, “The Metaphysics of Schwarzenegger Movies,” she decided to focus on writing about her passions; sci-fi, horror, sports and comic books. She's probably talking about Scream right now or convincing a stranger to watch The Guest, or even more likely drawing a detailed timeline for the Alien franchise. You can catch her running internal monologue on twitter @smashtraves

  • Meagan Navarro
    Meagan Navarro - Contributing Writer

    Meagan Navarro is a Texas based writer and film critic. She became a lifelong horror fan after discovering the horror aisle of the video store at a very young age. She has written for Fangoria, Consequence of Sound, Bloody Disgusting, and anywhere else that will let her talk monsters, ghosts, ghouls, and things that go bump in the night.