Horror, through the female perspective
— MEET THE TEAM —
Ghouls Magazine is an online magazine that dissects and discusses horror, all through the female perspective. We have an incredible team of women and non-binary horror writers who make this site what it is. You can have a look through our contributors below and don’t forget to read their work and give them a follow on social too! If you would like to support us, you can drop a donation over on Ko-Fi or become a Ghouls Member with our monthly subscription!
Fancy joining the Ghouls Magazine team? Get in touch with us!
Zoë Rose Smith
Founder | Editor-in-Chief
Zoë created Ghouls Magazine to encourage more macabre women, women identifying & non-binary people to discuss their love of the horror genre. She is a freelance film journalist who also goes under the pseudonym of Zobo With A Shotgun. Her speciality lies in anything extreme, with a penchant for nasty, gory and controversial horror films and books. She is the co-host of extreme cinema podcast Our Bloody Obsession.
You can find her written editorials, audio commentaries, video essays and more included in Second Sight, FANGORIA, Arrow, Hustler Magazine Fractured Visions, 88 Films, Hear Us Scream, TetroVideo, Unearthed Filmes, Moving Pictures Film Club, Soho Horror Film Festival, Daily Grindhouse, The Evolution of Horror Podcast, Scream Horror Magazine, Jumpcut and more.
Rebecca McCallum
Assistant Editor
Rebecca is a writer of horror/film analysis, an author and editor. She is Senior Contributor at Moving Pictures Film Club where she has an ongoing series of essays on Hitchcock’s Women. She is creator and host of Talking Hitchcock a podcast that explores the world and work of the director. You can listen on Apple and Spotify and follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. She has by-lines with FANGORIA, Dread Central and Rue Morgue and work in print with Grim Journal, Second Sight and Hear Us Scream-The Voices of Horror Vol I.
You can find her on Twitter and Instagram
Kim Morrison
Senior Contributor & Social Media Manager
Kim Morrison is a horror writer from Edinburgh, Scotland. She enjoys crocheting, has a mild obsession with bees, and a Simpsons quote for every occasion. Kim developed a love of horror from watching Stephen King's 'IT' far too young, and now is a fan of final girls, werewolves, remakes, horrible ankle injuries, and defending 'The Rage: Carrie 2' whenever possible. Follow Kim on Twitter or read more on Little Red Horror.
Ariel Powers-Schaub
Senior Contributor and Administrative Assistant
Ariel (pronounced r-e-L) is a lifelong horror enthusiast from the American midwest. Her first horror memory is being terrified, but fascinated, by the pollution monster in FernGully, and she has been chasing that feeling ever since. She will watch almost anything, but particularly loves found footage, slashers, and anything gory. You can find her sipping bourbon and trying to convince others around her that the Saw franchise actually has a lot to say. When not watching horror, she is likely reading Stephen King, watching pro wrestling, or listening to R&B music. She is obsessed with Halloween, and spends the whole year planning for the holiday, which also happens to be her wedding anniversary.
Letterboxd: AriHellraiser | Twitter Ari_Hellraiser
Jerry Sampson
Senior Contributor
Jerry Sampson is a freelance writer, horror writer, screenwriter, and editor. Her love for film and the horror genre leads her to explore and question the darkness that lies in the shadows of human existence. She studies the concept of inherited trauma and finds that theme coming up unconsciously in much of her work. Jerry finds shelter in writing, reading and watching sinister stories that haunt and terrify. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and cat-child.
Website | Instagram | Twitter
Elizabeth Bishop
Senior Contributor
Liz is based in sunny Birmingham, where she spends her time drinking rose wine, playing Stardew Valley and rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer over and over again…
Her love of horror came to light when her Grandad pulled Blade out of his extensive VHS collection when she was just a child. Since then, a lifetime of consuming an excessive amount of scares through films, tv, books and podcasts has resulted in her being afraid of everything but prepared for anything.
Iona Smith
Senior Contributor
Iona is a long-time horror fan who found her love for all things spooky at a very young age. When she's not writing for Ghouls, Iona works in development for non-scripted television where she has a reputation for coming up with ideas about death, sex, and nerd culture. She enjoys skulking in cinemas, aimlessly wandering graveyards, and trying to persuade people to watch all the Final Destination films. You can find her on most social media platforms.
Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Senior Contributor
Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana (who sometimes uses her stage name Oh Golly! Miss Dolly!) is an Irish pinup model, burlesque performer and podcast host of 'What A Scream' . When she is not taking her clothes off onstage in a flurry of blood and guts, she co-produces events for Women in Horror Month in Ireland. Deeply obsessed with all things dark and macabre from a frighteningly young age, Ygraine's favourite sub genres are the occult and possession.
Ghouls Magazine has been set-up by a small team of two, and is independently produced. From tweeting late at night to editing pages on the website to designing posters in the AM, everything you see is created on a personal level.
Why do we need your support?
Because we want to be able to keep the online magazine alive and ensure we deliver you fresh new content regularly.
Liz DeGregorio
Senior Contributor
Liz DeGregorio is a New York-based poet, writer and editor who is especially fascinated by queerness, feminism and body horror in literature and film. In addition to her work at Ghouls Magazine, her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult Magazine, Lucky Jefferson, ANMLY, Dread Central, BUST Magazine, Ruminate Magazine, OyeDrum Magazine, Blink Ink and other publications. She's also performed at the award-winning storytelling series Stranger Stories. You can find her @LizDeGregorio on Twitter @LizDegregorio and BlueSky.
Melissa Cox
Contributor
Melissa Cox is a Brighton-based found footage enthusiast and Wendy Torrance defender, who according to Spotify listens to far too much John Carpenter. When not watching horror movies, she can usually be found watching pro wrestling or EastEnders instead.
She reviews and recommends short horror films and stories on her blog Short and Sour. Twitter / @chloeoriel
Lakkaya Palmer
Contributor
Lakkaya Palmer is a soon to be PhD student at University College London, researching portrayals of Fatherhood in American Horror Cinema. Her love for the horror genre leads her to explore themes such as: parenthood, gender representation and mental health within horor cinema. Lakkaya has also contributed pieces to Headpress Publishing and Moving Pictures Film Club. When she's not watching horror films, you can find her watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Attack on Titan.
Follow on Twitter | LinkTree with more writing
Ariel Baska
Contributor
Ariel Baska is an openly disabled horror and documentary filmmaker. She recently wrapped her horror short, Our First Priority, which she wrote, directed, and successfully Kickstarted, and is due out later this year. She is the founder, co-host and executive producer of Ride the Omnibus , a podcast parked at the intersection of pop culture and social justice. Her comic book analysis and criticism can be found at Comics Bookcase. Within horror, she’s passionate about the disturbing, the extreme, and any well-crafted tale with intersectional representation.
Twitter & Instagram: @ruinmysky
Alix Turner
Contributor
Alix discovered both David Lynch and Hardware in 1990, and has been seeking out weird and nasty films ever since (though their tastes have become broader and more cosmopolitan). A few years ago, Alix discovered a fondness for genre festivals and a knack for writing about films, and now cannot seem to stop. They especially appreciate wit and representation on screen, and introducing old favourites to their adolescent son.
Jenn Adams
Contributor
Jenn is a writer and podcaster from Nashville, TN. She co-hosts both Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast examining mental health topics through the lens of the horror genre and The Loser’s Club: A Stephen King Podcast taking frequent deep dives into the work and adaptations of her favorite author. She is a senior writer for Consequence of Sound and will gladly talk your ear off about final girls, feminism, and Stephen King.
Socials - @jennferatu on Twitter and Instagram.
Lauren Hart
Contributor
Let’s Scare Lauren is a horror fan writing on the borderlands through a feminist, sometimes psychoanalytical lens. She loves to see complex female horror characters kicking arse, hysterically crying and being menacing as balls, or preferably all three at once. Lauren can be found lurking whimsically at letsscarelaurentodeath.com and on Instagram @letsscarelaurentodeath.
Ghouls Magazine (Ghouls Ghouls Ghouls) has been set-up by a small team of two, and is independently produced. From tweeting late at night to editing pages on the website to designing posters in the AM, everything you see is created on a personal level.
Why do we need your support?
Because we want to be able to keep the online magazine alive and ensure we deliver you fresh new content regularly.
Caitlyn Downs
Contributor
Caitlyn lives in a 175-year-old house next to a graveyard in South Wales so an interest in horror was practically guaranteed. A screen studies course at University prompted greater interest in horror films, festivals and turning her ability to overthink almost anything into something productive. She wears too much eyeliner and is rarely without rescue lurcher Casper at her side.
Twitter: @scaredsheepless
Sarah Miles
Contributor
Sarah writes about horror movies because she’s worried about what trouble she’d get into if she didn’t. Knows far too much about zombies and Japanese horror.
Life goals: To live in a haunted house and someday hug Mothra.
Jessica Scott
Contributor
Jessica Scott is a freelance film writer and blogger who loves examining feminist and queer issues in horror. She is passionate about slashers, haunted house stories, and the film TerrorVision. She runs WeWhoWalkHere.blog and hosts @MonsterBooksPod for fans of kids' horror fiction. She also contributes to Film Cred, Nightmarish Conjurings, and Daily Grindhouse. When she's not watching horror, you can usually find Jessica knitting or reading comics.
Twitter @wewhowalkhere
Sam Vargas
Contributor
Samantha Vargas is a writer, critic, and content creator based out of New York City. She devotes her free time to photographing her cat, pretentiously bringing up her film degree in casual conversation, and yelling about the gender politics of slasher films from the ’70s. She can be found everywhere @_SamVargas_.
Marisa Mercurio (she/her or they/them)
Contributor
Marisa Mercurio is a Michigan-based writer and scholar. As a PhD candidate, she studies intersections of gender, sexuality, and empire in nineteenth century British literature; female detective fiction; horror and the Gothic. Marisa is also the co-creator and co-host of the However Improbable podcast, a Sherlock Holmes book club that narrates and discusses the great detective. Her writing has recently appeared in Ancillary Review of Books, Sublime Horror, and World Literature Today. You can find her on Twitter @marmercurio and on Wordpress.
Contact email: mercuri7@msu.edu
Harriet Fletcher
Contributor
Harriet is a writer and academic interested in film, TV and pop culture. She is currently based in the North West of England where she is doing a PhD on the intersections of celebrity and the Gothic in literature and media, indulging her two great loves: spooky things and trashy things. She has fond childhood memories of renting horror films at Blockbuster and taking them to sleepovers to terrify her friends. She loves psychological horror, vampires and anything celebrity related.
Twitter: @gothicceleb
Hannah Ogilvie
Contributor
Hannah is originally from Scotland and now lives in Sheffield. She has a love for all film and TV but horror is her main passion and has thankfully found a community of like minded people. Hannah has found somewhere where her brain, which seems to retain the most useless information on pop culture (she is badass in a pub quiz), is now useful. Hannah loves a good ghost story, zombie flick and slasher or occasionally just shouting at the screen when a character makes a non-sensical decision only to further the plot. When not writing, Hannah spends her time playing video games and listening to podcasts.
Amber T
Contributor
Amber T is a horror writer, reviewer and host of HornBloodFire podcast. Spending 1/3 of her life living in Asia has turned Amber is a foreign horror obsessive, particularly films from Japan. Her Celtic roots mean she has a particular penchant for the folk horror side of things too. Amber also contributes to Grimoire of Horror and Nekromancy Magazine and posts mini reviews on Instagram (almost) daily
Melanie Moyer
Contributor
Melanie is an award-nominated writer and horror-lover from Philadelphia, PA. She is the author of two novels and several short stories. In addition to her pieces at Ghouls Magazine, she also hosts the horror podcast Splatter Chatter
Candy Allison
Contributor
I am from Indianapolis, Indiana and am the creator/hostess of The House That Screams horror podcast and the co-owner of horror-themed makeup company Final Girl Cosmetics. I studied English and Humanities at Indiana University. I am a mother to 2 humans and 3 cats. My horror movie specialties include, but are not limited to: giallo, grindhouse, classics, and slashers. I spend my free time listening to punk, gaming, traveling to horror conventions/events, and working with causes towards feminist, LGBTQ+ and human equal rights.
Dr Megan Kenny
Contributor
Dr Megan Kenny is a writer, horror fanatic, folklorist, parapsychologist, and researcher based in Manchester. She is a lover of folk horror, body horror, werewolves and witches and is always down for a creature feature. Megan is part of the Monstrous Flesh collective and is the co-host of the Monstrous Flesh podcast. She writes about horror cinema for a number of outlets, you can find links to all her work via her linktree: https://linktr.ee/meganrkenny.