Michele Brittany is an independent popular culture scholar residing in Southern California and is the editor of James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy and Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Genre. The latter has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction. Additionally, I co-edited Horror Literature From Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays, and I am currently co-editing No Harm Ever Came from Reading a Book: Critical Essays on The Mummy Franchise that will be released in 2026. In 2025, I am participating in The 52 Book Club's 2025 Reading Challenge, so feel free to follow my progress here, at my website, and/or at StoryGraph.