James Doig grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. He was educated at the University of Western Australia, and the University of Wales, Swansea, where he completed a PhD in medieval history. He has long been a devotee of horror fiction, and subscribes to the T.E.D. Klein view that interest in such things begins in the crib. He has published articles on obscure writers of supernatural and horror fiction such as R.R. Ryan, Keith Fleming, and R. Murray Gilchrist, and has edited a collection of shot stories by the Australian-born writer H.B. Marriot Watson for Ash-Tree Press. He has completed an anthology of early Australian supernatural fiction, which is currently under consideration by Ash-Tree. He works at the National Archives of Australia, where the research for his article was carried out.
