Adam James Smith is an Associate Professor of English Literature at York St John University, UK. He co-edited books for multiple academic presses and is a presently series editor for the People of Print. Adam is chief editor of Criticks, the online review site for the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, sits on the publication committee of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is a co-editor for the journal Literature Compass. He has published widely on eighteenth-century print culture, and in recent years, folk horror. Adam contributed a chapter to the Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2023) and is series editor for the Bloomsbury Hauntings and Horror series. He is also co-director of the York Research Unit for the Study of Satire and co-host of the monthly podcast, Smith and Waugh Talk About Satire, which has over 12l subscribers