Maitland McDonagh () is an American film critic and the author of several books about cinema. She is best known for the book Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento (1991), the earliest auteur study about the influential Italian horror-suspense director. A specialist in the horror genre, she has appeared in numerous documentaries on the subject as well as on DVD commentaries for films including Tenebrae and the Criterion Collection release of The Silence of the Lambs. McDonagh additionally is known for her work in erotic fiction and erotic cinema, with such books as The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time (1996) and such documentaries as the UK's The 100 Greatest Sexy Moments (2003). In the mid-2010s she became a publisher of LGBTQ erotic fiction, founding 120 Days Books, which became an imprint of Riverdale Avenue Books.