Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, programmer, publisher, producer and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012) and has been an editor on several books including Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012) and David Gregory’s Tales of the Uncanny (2020), and is currently co-editing an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr. and writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. Her first feature as writer/director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror debuts at SXSW 2021. For more on her work see kierlajanisse.com