Kelly Robinson

Kelly Robinson is a freelance writer and researcher with a particular interest in the weird and the obscure, from forgotten literary history to lost horror films. Her bylines appear in magazines such as Rue Morgue, Smithsonian, History, and Mental Floss. Her Rue Morgue feature on lost horror films was nominated for a Rondo Hatton Award for excellence in classic horror research and is the basis for what will soon be expanded into a full-length book. She is this year's recipient of the Horror Writers Association's Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for Non-Fiction.

Her latest essay “Where the Wild Roses Grow: The Strange Allure of Murder Ballads” appears in Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them (Repeater Books, 2017).