Mary Beth McAndrews | Editor-in-Chief
Mary Beth McAndrews is the editor-in-chief of Dread Central, as well as the director and producer of the award-winning Bystanders, a new rape-revenge thriller from DREAD. Previously, she served as an executive producer for horror films The Jester, Last Night At Terrace Lanes, Ghost Game, and Ask. With almost a decade of experience as a journalist and editor, she’s written articles for places such as Slashfilm, Paste Magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Film School Rejects, Fangoria, Bloody Disgusting, and Rue Morgue Magazine, and maintains her own homepage here.
She’s also contributed essays and commentaries for the physical releases of films such as Lake Mungo and Revenge from Second Sight Films, Attack of the Demons from Dark Sky Films, The Outwaters from Screambox, and Swallowed from Yellow Veil Pictures. In 2019, she earned her Master’s Degree in Film Studies and Gender Studies from University of Chicago where she wrote her thesis on women-directed rape-revenge films. Her academic work has appeared in books Queering the Vampire Narrative from Brill and Filtered Reality from House of Leaves Publishing. She’s also written a book on the 2007 found footage film Paranormal Activity, which is slated to release later this year from DieDie Books. She also co-hosts the Rondo Award-nominated podcast Scarred for Life with Terry Mesnard.
Since 2019, she and Terry have interviewed guests like Brandon Cronenberg and Amy Seimetz about the one film that terrified them as a kid. Previously, she worked at Discovery Communications, National Geographic, and the Humane Rescue Alliance as a digital producer and video editor. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband and two cats. When she’s not looking for the Blair Witch or Mothman, she’s either playing Stardew Valley or watching a found footage movie.
Josh Korngut | Managing Editor
Josh Korngut is a Canadian entertainment journalist, film critic, editor, and filmmaker based in Toronto. He is the managing editor of Dread Central and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, known for his sharp and insightful takes on genre cinema and storytelling. A proud voting member of GALECA (The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics), Josh’s bylines appear in Paste Magazine, Exclaim!, CBC Life, Pride, and The Advocate, where he consistently champions marginalized voices in film, music, and culture.
Josh is also the creator and host of the hit podcast Development Hell, where he uncovers the untold stories behind canceled and lost horror projects. Featuring high-profile guests like Elvira, Radio Silence, Peaches Christ, and Grady Hendrix, the podcast has earned a spot among the top five Apple Podcast charts for TV & Film History and was named one of Variety’s top 12 best horror podcasts of all time.
In 2024, Josh executive produced Dark Sanctum, the Wondery+ original horror anthology series. He is also an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been showcased at premier genre festivals such as Panic Fest, Chattanooga Film Festival, Toronto After Dark, Salem Horror Fest, Morbido Film Fest, and Texas Frightmare Weekend.
Josh draws inspiration from women who kill, ghost towns, Gubbio, his grandmother, and Henry, his very rude poodle. Connect with him on socials via @joshkorngut.
Tyler Doupé
Tyler Doupe’ is a former video store clerk and a lifelong physical media fanatic. He owns more than 2,000 titles on both disc and VHS. In addition to serving as a staff writer for Dread Central, he also works as the managing editor at Wicked Horror. T-Bone is the co-editor of the reference manual ‘Queer Horror: A Film Guide,’ which received a starred review in ‘Library Journal.’ He pens the Rondo Hatton Award-nominated column The Overlooked Motel for Dread Central.
Tyler judged the FANtastic Horror Film Festival in 2016. Some of Tyler’s past bylines include Fangoria Magazine, Rue Morgue Magazine, Scream: The Horror Magazine, SyFy Wire, ComingSoon.Net, Ranker, Shock Till You Drop, FEARnet, ConTV, Screenopolis, and more. He earned a BA in technical writing from Eastern Washington University. Tyler lives in Portland with his cool husband, David, and their four charming pets, Remington-Muttley, Kirby-Joyce, CoCo-Letigra, and Marvin-Hubbard. @FunWithHorror on X, Threads, and Instagram. @Tyler Doupé on Letterboxd.
Chad Collins
Chad Collins has been writing about horror since 2020 (and watching it since 2000). Currently a staff writer for Dread Central, his work can additionally be seen on Slashfilm, Rue Morgue, and elsewhere. He holds a Masters in Interpersonal Communication from the University of Central Florida and currently teaches communication at a college in Florida.
He is a Tomatometer-approved critic and has an essay featured in the Second Sight Films release of ‘Inside.’ In 2023, he was selected as a member of the Press Inclusion Initiative for that year’s Sundance International Film Festival. You can find him @Chadiscollins on Twitter, @Chadcoolins on Instagram, and Chadiscollins on Letterboxd, where he regularly logs the early 2000s horror movies you forgot about (go, ‘Darkness Falls’). Check out his entire portfolio on Authory.
Sharai Bohannon
Sharai Bohannon is an award-winning playwright who has been produced in London, England, and all over America. In addition to writing for Dread Central, she writes for Horror Press LLC. She is also the Assistant Editor at Horror Movie Blog and has bylines at Fangoria and The Everygirl. She created and co-hosts the podcasts A Nightmare on Fierce Street and Blerdy Massacre.
On the podcasts, she tackles horror films through a Black feminist lens. As part of Girl, That’s A Massacre (Girl, That’s Scary + Blerdy Massacre), she has co-hosted panels and talkbacks at Midsummer Scream, Blerdcon, Salem Horror Fest, New York Comic Con, and Virtual Con. She is also one of the rotating hosts of The Alter Tapes and co-host of You Should Watch From and Hey YOU Podcast on The Anatomy Of A Scream Network. She also joins And A Rewatch Podcast for their Yellowjackets recaps.
She has an MFA in playwriting and refuses to go back to school. She is currently freezing through her fourth winter in Minnesota.
Jon Condit | President and Co-founder
Jon Condit began his career as a phpBB Developer and community manager for Fangoria in 2001. He became the Director of Online Operations for Horror Channel before helping take the Dread Central brand independent in 2006. A web developer and e-commerce consultant by trade, Jon has designed sites for George A. Romero, the original Day of the Dead cast, Eugene Clark, Eibon Press, Fulci Comics, Box of Dread, and DreadXP among others.
In 2009 he launched and operated the subscription box service Box of Dread where he ran special promotions and marketing activations with Netflix, Paramount, WB, RLJE, AMC, Starz, Topps, Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox, and others in collaboration with Dread Central. A lifelong advocate for filmmakers and artists, Jon joined Horrible Imaginings in 2012, serving as a features programmer and a board of directors member until the festival shuttered in 2022.
