The next book to be released in the Genre, Fiction and Film Companion series I run at Peter Lang. If you have an idea for one please do get in touch with me.

Aca-Christmas-Horror-Colleagues I’ve an emergency for an essay on eco-horror and Christmas involving supernatural or magical creatures, pointing to a pagan/folk horror past. Can’t involve ghosts but can be in any media. If interested drop me a message to: [email protected]

I’ve been involved in earlier iterations of these books and they’re absolutely terrific. So if you want to help get the latest one on “Subversive Sci-fi: Evolution” out into the world (and on your book shelf) follow the link to their kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Final 2 essays for The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie: The Zombie Megatext are now live online (90 in total): - “Zombie Rhetoric” by Kendall Phillips & Connor Knowlan. - “Haitian Origins” by Sarah Juliet Lauro & Lucy Swanson. They can be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie now at 88 (1/2) -Lovecraft & Herbert West by Tony Alcala -Doom by Dawn Stobbart -Phenomenology of the Undead by Patricia Saldarriaga & Emy Manini -Undead Pregnancy by Catherine Pugh & Melody Blackmore All here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

Now at 88 for The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (2/2) 😃 -Italian Zombie Horrors by Matthew Jones -Hong Kong’s Cinema of the Undead by Paul Lewis and Peter True -The Ludo-Narrative Chronotope by Ruikang Wu And they can all be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

More essays online for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie….only 9 left to go! — “An Apocalypse without Zombies” by Steffen Hantke — “The Women Who Defy the Undead” by Mo Moshaty. And they can be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

Aca-WeimarCinena-Colleagues Just out, an absolutely terrific CFP by Dr Elisabetta Girelli on “Masculinities in Weimar Cinema” Full details in the link below: www.academia.edu/143948408/WE...

Aca-Vampy/Gaming-Colleagues. I’ve got a collection on “Selling the Vampire” and I need an abstract on the use of vampires in marketing games, or how vampires in games are used to promote/market vampires in other media If interested contact me at: [email protected]

Aca-Crime-Collegues Great conference led by Dr Charlotte Barnes which is a must for all you Crime folks out there: “An Awkward Marriage: Considering the serial killer’s social standing in a changing British culture” For full details see link below. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

3 more essays for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. 79 down only 11 more to go: -Emerging Zombie Identities in Neoliberalism by Lexa Lechuga -Queer Futurity in Zombie Video Games by Elliot Mason -White Zombie by Matthew Banks Find them here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

I have a collection on “Contagion: Cryptids, Panic and the Monsters of Anxiety” and I’m in need of a couple of extra 4,500 word essays by the end of November 2025. If interested contact me @: [email protected] The original CFP is attached below:

Oohhh exciting….The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (The Zombie Megatext) finally has a placeholder on Amazon…and a release date. The horde should be released in January next year! 😃🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️ www.amazon.com/Palgrave-Han...

Co-editor book-mail. Big shoutout to my partner in Lunar-gothic-crime Elana Gomel, and a huge welldone to all the contributors for their terrific essays. 😃

Aca-Disney-Colleagues Hugely exciting news of a CFP for a Disney Companion put together by the terrific Prof. Lorna Farnell and myself. So if you are fascinated/horrified by all things Disney see attached: www.academia.edu/143102016/Di...

The Zombie Handbook reaches 76 essays (1 of 2): -The Eco-Zombies of Endzeit by Patricia Saldarriaga & Emy Manini -Zombies and the Holocaust by Elana Gomel - Pre-Code Zombie Comics by Daniel Yezbick And they can all be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

The Zombie Handbook reaches 76 essays (2 of 2): - Zombies and Militarization by Michael Doidge = Revenants in Ancient Greece and Rome by Debbie Felton - Japanese Zombies by Kasia Ancuta And they can all be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

Aca-AlienFranchise-Colleagues It’s almost 50 yrs of the Alien franchise so time there was a Companion for it. Abstracts by end Sept on new directions in reading the franchise, characters, crossovers & its cultural impact are encouraged. Abstracts to me at: [email protected]

Zombie Handbook moving along, only 20 left to go (2 of 2): - Dead Space and Dead Space 2 by Paul A. Thomas - The Revenant in Europe by Stephen Gordon - Thai Ravenous Spirits by Choedphong Uttama - Occultsploitation by Katie Ellis These can be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

Zombie Habdbook is moving along…only 20 more to go (1 of 2): - The Inexorable March of the Roman Catholic Zombie” by Matt Rogerson - Plan 9 from Outer Space by Simon Orpana - Revenants in Medieval Iceland by Rebecca Merkelbach And they can all be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

Aca-Horror-Colleagues I’ve a collection on Horror & Authenticity with 2 gaps that need abstracts (final essays end 2026): -Authenticity & True Crime in Horror films -Authenticity & AI as a theme or as a means of production in Horror film. Contact me @: [email protected]

Aca-Gothic-Colleagues Got a book for Routledge where I need 5,000 words by end Oct 2025 on the following: —The Gothic and the female Black body in Ma (2019), Spell (2020), The Reading (2023) and/or other recent examples. If of interest contact me: [email protected]

My analysis of the intergenerational racism and trauma in @gradyhendrix.bsky.social’s THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES is available in TOXIC NOSTALGIA ON SCREEN: Undead Memory in the 21st Century, edited by @baconetti.bsky.social.

Hot off the press the new Fairies: A Companion edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and myself. Full of terrific essays and much fairy (gothicky) goodness! 😃

Update No1 for the Handbook of the Zombie-now at 62! -Zombies and Cosmetic Surgery by Gwyneth Peaty -Romero’s 2nd Zombie Trilogy by Daniel Yezbick -The Blind Dead by Katie Ellis -Playing the Zombie by Steph Farnsworth And they can all be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

Update No2 for the Handbook of the Zombie-now at 62! -Spanish Zombies by Irene Baena-Cuder -Zombie Westerns by Reece Goodall -Zombie Movies and America’s Wars by Peter Dendle And they can all be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

Ooohhh….super exciting. We finally have a cover for “Uncanny Doubles: Doppelgängers, Twins, CLones and the Gothic”….not too much longer before we’re on proofs and hopefully out before the end of the year! 😃

Woooooot…the vampires have landed! They look beautiful and packed to the brim with vampy goodness. 😃

Release the bats, it's a vamp-filled week! "The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion" is now out from @edinburghup.bsky.social w/chapters on film, literature & cultural traces of the fanged menace. Eds Nick Groom @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social ‬w/many contribs edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-vam...

Vampires: putting the red in the ol' Red, White & Blue since 1776. "Vampires and The Making of the United States" is new from #Routledge w/essays on fangs across American film, books, and culture. Edited by (who else?!) @baconetti.bsky.social. www.routledge.com/Vampires-and...

One of the perks of being a series editor is I get a copy of all the newly published books….and this beauty by the terrific Kristoffer Woofter and Carl Sederholm just arrived! If you’ve any interest in The Weird you should get this book!

Feast your eyes on this beauty...the cover for the soon to be published Fairies: A Companion edited by the ever amazing Lorna Piatti-Farnell and myself.

Terrific new edited collection by my good colleague Steffen Hantke: CFP: Fearful Performances: Stardom, Skill, and Style of Acting in the Horror Film More details in the attached images but email your proposal/abstract/questions to: [email protected] before 15 June 2025.

New essays online for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie: — “Zora Neale Hurston in Context” by Gina Wisker — “The Mummy & the Vengeful Undead” by Michael Goodrum — “Books of the Dead” by Kevin Wetmore And you can find them here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

#PeterLangOxford is now offering a Special 30% Discount on The Weird for the month of May! Please purchase through the website www.peterlang.com/document/132... and enter the code WEIRD30 at checkout. #genre #weird #horror

Aca-Vampy-Colleagues. Essay emergency for a collection on Vampires and Music for Lexington Books, deadlining this Summer. Because of Sinners I need a 5-6,000 word essay on Music/Vampires/Sinners by end of July 2025. If interested contact me at: [email protected]

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Fantastic new collection on The Weird by Kristopher Woofter and Carl Sederholm. Part of the Genre, Fiction and Film Companion Series I run at Peter Lang, Oxford. If you have an idea for a possible Companion please drop me a line at: [email protected] www.peterlang.com/document/132...

Handbook of the Zombie now at 49: -Haunting & Cargo by J Gildersleeve & K Cantrell -Family & The Last of Us by C Long-Johnson -Zombie Fashion by T Cutler-Broyles & C. L. Rumson -Vetala & Betaal by A Hazra -Indigenous Kinscapes by D. O. J. Petersen Here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

CFP: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland We're nearing the last few weeks for our Call for Papers for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - A Companion. Full CFP in the images and below, and abstract submission form here 👉https://forms.gle/XUsmPfBsXju2XpcR9 (due 15 May 2025)

Excited to see my essay about #JeanRollin and the French #zombie film, submitted for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie, published online alongside some other excellent writing about zombies. link.springer.com/referencewor... Check it out! #horror

New essays for the Handbook of the Zombie: -Non-voodoo Zombies by Simon Bacon -Jean Rollin Zombies by @Krycek_Facility -Science of the Undead by Kirstin A. Mills -Zombie School Daze by Antares Leask -The End as Return by Martyn Colebrook Find here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

Aca-Gothic-Games-Colleagues I need some abstracts for “The Dark Side of Play and Games” project on the following: — Gothic/horror themes in toys — Monster/Fantasy boardgames. — Dolls, dollhouses on film — scary video games meant for children. Abstracts to: [email protected]

And hot on the heels of the cover reveal…we have a placeholder for Lunar Gothic on the Springer site! 😃 link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Aca-CursedArchive-Colleagues Have a collection on Cursed Archives (Memory-Trauma-Revenge) and need abstracts on the following: — Grimoires/Necronomicon — The Stone Tapes or memory-filled objects — Rooms/Houses — Language/Music — Landscape/Forest/Seashore Send abstracts to: [email protected]

Aca-Cannibal-Colleagues. Consuming Identity is looking terrific, but I could do with abstracts on the following: — Afrofuturism — Folkhorror/Werewolves — Sexuality/Gender/Queerness — Soylent Green & beyond — Skineaters — Humanoid Alien Species If interested drop me a line at: [email protected]

So exciting…we have a cover for Lunar Gothic and it’s sooo beautiful! 🤩

Aca-Terrifier-Colleagues. Essay Emergency: I need an essay on Terrifier 3 for a book on Undead Christmas by end April (2025). 5-6,000 words and ideally touch on any the following: Eco-horror/Anthropocene/Capitalism-Consumerism. If interested email me at: [email protected]

Aca-MonstrousConsumption-Colleagues Started going through the abstracts for the Monstrous Consumption, & Consuming Identity (Cannibal) Projects, if you’ve not sent me anything yet & are really keen to be considered for either or both projects send me something ASAP ([email protected])

Couple more essays for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie: — “Love and Romance in Zombie Narratives” by Ildikó Limpár — “Harold’s Going Stiff: Aging and Mental Health in Zombie Narratives” by Mark Fryers They can be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...