Horror Queers Creators & Guests

Trace Thurman is a podcast host of the Horror Queers podcast.

Joe Lipsett is Co-founder at Fright Gowns, and podcast host of Horror Queers.

Charles was born and raised in Upstate New York, before moving to Manhattan. He bartends at The Stonewall Inn in The West Village and has a chihuahua named Harley.

Emily St. James (formerly Emily VanDerWerff) is a critic, journalist, podcaster, and writer. Currently, she is the Critic at Large for Vox. Prior to 2019, she published under her old name, Todd VanDerWerff.St. James started her career by working for the student newspaper while studying at South Dakota State University. In 2004, she graduated and began working for newspapers, writing and copy editing, while maintaining her TV blog. Later, she wrote for the A.V. Club, first as a freelance writer, and then as an editor.

Your one stop shop for all things gay and dreadful and sometimes gayly dreadful. He/Him. 🍅approved. Co-host @ScarredPodcast

Ariel Fisher is the Managing Editor at Fangoria.

Patrick Hamilton has been a professional writer in TV & Film for 2 decades, a host of the Kill By Kill podcast, & 1/2 of We Write Good Inc. Also a former robot wrangler.

Nay Bever is an artist, writer, and cultural commentator. Her trademark sense of humor and brilliance make her a remarkable storyteller and thereby a frequent podcast and panel guest and moderator. She co-hosted Attack of the Queerwolf, originally a Blumhouse/Fangoria podcast, looking at horror films through a queer lens.

Cecil Baldwin is the voice of Night Vale and the narrator of Welcome to Night Vale. He works at Night Vale Community Radio as the announcer and self-proclaimed journalist.

Cat Blackard is a multimedia artist known for her work as a writer, podcast host, graphic artist and actor. She's series creator and co-author of The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program, the award-winning horror comedy audio drama, and Lightning Dogs, an animated series inspired by classic 80s cartoons. She's the founder of the multimedia storytelling company, Omniverse, as well as The Nerdy Show Network - the longest-running geek podcast collective.Blackard's podcasting career began 2009 with her co-founding of the series Nerdy Show and Dungeons & Doritos - launching what would become The Nerdy Show Network. Dungeons & Doritos would be her first major acting roles as both the sensationally sensual dragonborn, Jamela, and the senile wizard narrator, Galdap. That series evolved into the programming that Blackard would become best known for: improvised audio dramas, particularly "RPG Audio Dramas" - live tabletop roleplaying turned into immersive cinematic narratives. Her work as a performer and storyteller continues as she experiments with new varieties of improvisational narrative in her own work and beyond.As Art Director for Consequence of Sound from 2008-2019, Blackard created a body of pop culture illustration, paintings, and multimedia art alongside in-depth articles and interviews. She later went on to launch Consequence Podcast Network as its director, producing series such as The Opus in collaboration with Sony. Her career as a media journalist and speaker is filled with humorous and in-depth discussions on-camera, on-stage, and in the studio with notable personalities and innovators such as Dan Aykroyd, Phil Collins, Janelle Monáe, Reggie Watts, Eric André, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Barry Levinson, David Byrne, Chelsea Manning and many more.