John Edgar Browning is an American author and editor known for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in both movies and literature. He is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Browning is considered an "expert on vampires specializing in the Dracula figure in film, literature, television, and popular culture." His works expound upon Dracula, horror, vampires, the supernatural, the un-dead, Bram Stoker, gothic and cultural theory. As a vampire scholar, Browning has appeared in two documentaries: The National Geographic Channel's Taboo USA, formerly Taboo, and Discovery Channel's Weird or What? For his book Dracula in Visual Media, Browning documented over 700 "domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animations, and video games . . . [as well as] nearly 1000 domestic and international comic book titles and stage adaptations." For the book, Browning won the Lord Ruthven Award, an award for deserving work in vampire fiction or scholarship. The book was also nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Book of the Year in 2011. [More at Wikipedia]

October 14th, 1980 in Nashville (Age 43)