Tanya Kirk is a librarian at St John's College, Cambridge, and formerly served as a curator of the Western Heritage collections at the British Library, where she was Lead Curator for the period 1601-1900. She co-curated the exhibition Terror & Wonder: The Gothic Imagination and has edited numerous volumes in the British Library's Tales of the Weird series, including Haunters at the Hearth, Sunless Solstice, Chill Tidings, and Spirits of the Season.