Mark Clark (Mentor on the Lake, OH) a 1988 graduate of the University of Louisville, is a film historian and has authored Sixties Shockers (2011, McFarland) and Smirk, Sneer and Scream: Great Acting in Horror Cinema (McFarland, 2004'), 'and has contributed essays and articles to numerous other books and magazines. He's a former film critic for the Louisville Courier-Journal and has also taught film history and genre theory for the Factory Digital Film Production Program at Douglas Education Center in Monessen, Pennsylvania.