In 2022, McDonagh was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.
[26] In 2014, McDonagh created the company 120 Days Books to republish rare 1970s and 1980s gay-erotica genre novels, beginning with a pair of two-in-one volumes: the crime thrillers Man Eater and Night of the Sadist and the supernatural fantasies Vampire's Kiss and Gay Vampire.
[28] McDonagh provides interviews and second-channel commentary on DVD / Blu-ray releases, including for director Paul Schrader's Blue Collar,[29] Dario Argento's Tenebrae,[30] and Douglas Buck's Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America,[31] and liner notes, including for the Criterion Collection releases The Tunnel, The Innocents,[32] Kuroneko,[33] and the paired Corridors of Blood/The Haunted Strangler,[34] Arrow Video's Dressed to Kill,[35] and Second Sight Films' The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K UHD.
[36] She stars in a documentary short, speaking on serial-killer cinema, on the Criterion Collection release of The Silence of the Lambs.
[38] In 2024, she began reviewing horror and other genre films weekly at her online website, Maitland on Movies.