Scott G. Bruce is Professor of Medieval History at Fordham University. His research interests include monasticism, hagiography, and the reception of classical and patristic traditions in medieval Europe. He is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Undead (2016), The Penguin Book of Hell (2018), and The Penguin Book of Demons (2024).

Stephen Gordon is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Cardiff University. He has taught previously at the University of Manchester and Royal Holloway. Stephen is an interdisciplinary scholar of the premodern supernatural with an especial interest in the literature and archaeology of the medieval walking dead.