About the Author

Rachel Feder is an internationally recognized expert on nineteenth-century literary history. She teaches in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver and is the author of an academic book about Mary Shelley, Harvester of Hearts; a book of poetry about astrology, motherhood, and literary history, Birth Chart; and is the editor of the new Norton Library Edition of Dracula.

McCormick Templeman is an author and academic whose writing and research focuses on traditional medicine, feminist horror, and literature of the long nineteenth century. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Sweet Briar College and serves as the fiction editor at Astrophil Press at the University of South Dakota.