Chris McGee teaches children’s literature, young adult literature, and film courses at Longwood University in Virginia. One of his primary areas of research and teaching is adolescent horror films, and his favorite movies are the eighties slasher films he’d watch at the local theaters with friends when he was a teenager. His other primary areas of interest are children’s and young adult mystery fiction, contemporary American series fiction, and popular children’s culture. He is currently at work on a manuscript on contemporary children’s and young adult detective fiction.