Jonathan Rigby (born 23 February 1963 in Salford, Lancs) is a respected film critic who has held a regular page, 'The Fright of Your Life', in Shivers magazine for several years. He wrote the highly regarded English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (first published 2000, third edition 2004) and an exhaustive Christopher Lee career biography (published 2001, revised 2003). In his parallel career as an actor, he originated the role of the late great Kenneth Horne in the London stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited to much acclaim; the production ran in London for some 18 months and spawned a BBC4 film. He has also published Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning (2005) and is working on a follow-up to English Gothic called American Gothic.