Patrick McCray entered the Dark Shadows community in 2012 when he successfully screened all 1225 episodes in only 45 days. He joined the Collinsport Historical Society staff the next year. A native of Louisville, Kentucky — he grew up blocks away from both Roger Davis and the house where Mitch Ryan was raised. Prior to earning his MFA in stage directing, Patrick helped the Rattlesnake Productions art department launch the landmark, television hit, Babylon 5 and was a comic book author for Revolutionary Comics, creating the underground cult hit, Elvis Shrugged while serving as protege to maverick comic book publisher, Todd Loren. Moonlighting as a film critic for a British website, Patrick's comments on Duck Soup would later be cited by Roger Ebert in his column and book, The Great Movies. He later wrote top-selling biographies of Betty White, Jack Dorsey, Britney Spears, and Elvis Presley. Having directed over eighty stage plays, he also co-produced and co-starred in the lauded audio series, Star Trek: The Continuing Mission. He has been writing the Dark Shadows Daybook since 2016, winning the 2018 Rondo Award for writer of the year. As a webmaster, you can see his work at kathrynleighscott.com.

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Jonathan M. Chaffin (1978-) was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Trained as a graphic designer, Jonathan considers himself a storyteller and essayist/historian.

A lifetime fan of horror stories and film, his current projects include writing reviews for the "Monster Serial" series of books and devoting time to www.HorrorInClay.com where he uses artifacts and ephemera to tell stories (he also produces horror-themed tiki mugs and barware like the Horror In Clay Cthulhu Tiki Mug).

“MONSTER SERIAL offers engaging appreciations of some fine fright films. Chaffin and McBride lend pungent, personal, well-wrought observations and McCray’s essays are of particularly focused passion. These pieces will inspire you to review favorites with a refreshed perspective as well as to embrace other movies for the first time, lead by these authors’ enthusiasm.” — MAGUS PETER H. GILMORE, High Priest of the Church of Satan"

In addition, Jonathan occasionally does voice-over and podcasting work and appears on panels at sci-fi fantasy and pop culture conventions on a variety of topics. You can follow him @CthulhuMug on twitter or by friending HorrorInClay on Facebook and G+

Will McKinley is a New York City-based writer, reporter, producer and classic film and television fan.

He's been a guest on Turner Classic Movies (interviewed by host Robert Osborne), NPR, Sirius Satellite Radio and the TCM podcast. Will has written for Slate and PBS and his byline has appeared more than 100 times in the pages of NYC alt weeklies like The Villager and Gay City News. He's also a contributor to four film/TV-related books: "Monster Serial" (2013), "Bride of Monster Serial" (2014), "Remembering Jonathan Frid" (2014), and "Taste the Blood of Monster Serial" (2015).

Phil Nobile Jr. is a lifelong movie fanatic who lives outside Philadelphia. He's written and directed feature-length documentaries on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN and Adrian Lyne's FATAL ATTRACTION, and his writing on film can be found at Birth.Movies.Death., where he serves as editor-at-large.

Desmond Reddick lives on Vancouver Island where he teaches, writes and podcasts. Bred on a steady stream of comics, horror movies and books, he enjoys writing a gruesome, thrilling tale.

When not working, he spends time with his indulgent wife, two vicious children and a dog named Kirby.

Danny Reid is a librarian who has been writing about pre-Code Hollywood for over a decade. His published writing includes Murder on Celluloid: A Companion to the Hildegarde Withers Film Series and acting as editor for the essay collection Thoughts on the Thin Man. Danny has introduced pre-Code film screenings around the world and appeared on podcasts to discuss the era. He currently lives in Germany with his wife, two kids, and three very silly dogs.