Derek Johnston is Lecturer in Broadcast Literacy at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. His research focuses on British broadcasting history and on the history of genres such as science fiction and horror, particularly where the two combine.

"Derek Johnston's Haunted Seasons, which comes as a welcome ... addition to the literature on the gothic, the supernatural, and our media landscape ... . Johnston's work excavates a fascinating history of these seasonal hauntings, locating them within the role that seasonal days like Christmas and Halloween play in the lived experience of communities on both sides of the Atlantic. ... This material is welcome in its own way, especially for an uninitiated reader ... ." (Murray Leeder, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Issue 15, 2016)

• Introduction: Defining Television Gothic1. The British Ghost Story at Christmas2. A Broadcast Tradition3. Irruptions of the Abnormal4. Seasonality, Nostalgia, Heritage and History5. The Ghost Story for Christmas and 'Treehouse of Horror'