Jessie Lilley | |
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Born |
Greenwich Village, New York City |
April 24, 1958
Occupation | Writer, Editor, Publisher |
Nationality | American |
Notable works | PUBLISHER: Scarlet Street Magazine EDITOR: Famous Monsters of Filmland, Worldly Remains, Mondo Cult |
Website | |
mondocult |
Jessie Lilley is an American writer, editor and small-press magazine publisher best known as the original publisher of Scarlet Street magazine. She is currently editor-in-chief of Mondo Cult. magazine. Miss Lilley began publishing Scarlet Street in 1990 before her association with a number of small-press film magazines like RetroVision,Chiller Magazine,Worldly Remains: A Pop Culture Review,Cinefantastique, Scary Monsters, Femme Fatales, Little Shoppe of Horrors and the recent re-launch of Famous Monsters of Filmland. One of the first women active in this area of publishing, Miss Lilley was a Monster Kid Hall of Fame Inductee at the 2012 Rondo Awards. She has edited two books - You Grew Up: the Life and Career of Paul Reed, Sr. and Gloria, the latter the memoir of Bond girl Gloria Hendry.
She has small roles in a few direct-to-video features and was an occasional guest of Joe Franklin's on WWOR-TV. She is married to musician David Paul Campbell with whom she founded Mudbug International Records. They live in Santa Cruz County, CA.