Sean Abley
Sean Abley is a journalist, screenwriter, dramaturg, novelist, and award-winning playwright. As a journalist, his byline has appeared in The Advocate, Unzipped, Attitude, Men's Health, online at ChillerTV.com, Blastr.com, WickedHorror.com, and for over 15 years in Fangoria Magazine and Fangoria.com. One of the longest tenured film journalists focusing on queer horror, he created Gay of the Dead in 2009, the first horror blog to feature interviews with LGBTQ filmmakers working in horror, for Fangoria.com, which led to his first book, Out in the Dark. In 2014 he created the long-running "Queer Horror" panel at San Diego Comic Con. Most recently, Queer Horror: A Film Guide, an encyclopedia of horror films with LGBTQ content that he created and co-edited, was published by McFarland Books. His next book of interviews, Gay of the Dead: Conversations with LGBTQ Filmmakers Working In Horror, is being rolled out on his Patreon and will be available in printed form in 2025.