The Authors
 

Adrian Engleby (author) was reputedly a little-known author and raconteur active on the Continent during the first quarter of the twentieth century. He gathered supernatural accounts during decades of travel from which he disappeared traceless in the mid-1920s.  

(photo: top; believed to be the author in Cannes, ca. 1920)

 

Scot D. Ryersson (1960-2024; co-editor & cover-art) was the author of numerous critiques and essays on film and literature, as well as the novellas Poisoned Ivy, The Arsenic Flower and Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know. He is also a multi-award winning artist trained at London’s Chelsea School of Art and Design. Ryersson designed posters for numerous Academy Award winning films, such as Witness, The Hunt for Red October, Ghost and The Silence of the Lambs. (photo: middle)

 

Michael Orlando Yaccarino (co-editor) writes on genre films and their creators, unconventional historical figures and the occult. He is the author of Heart Vision: Tarot's Inner Path. (photo: bottom)

 

Together, Ryersson and Yaccarino are the Directors of The Casati Archives and co-authors of the international bestselling biographies Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati and The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse, as well as the play Infinite Variety: Portrait of a Muse and the gothic fairy tale The Princess of Wax: A Cruel Tale. Visit marchesacasati.com for more information.