My favourite kind of book post…free editor copies of the paperback edition book post! And ain’t they pretty! (Beautiful cover art by Derek Newman-Stille 😃)

'Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century,' edited by @baconetti.bsky.social This collection follows the vampire across the US to consider what cultural and historical environments have gone towards creating the contemporary undead. www.routledge.com/Vampires-and...

Aca-Disney-Colleagues Do I know anyone who’d want to write something on Disney comics? If “yes” drop me a line at: [email protected]

My favourite kind of post…editor-copy post…and this one was a doozy. So many terrific essays by so many terrific authors. It’s Zombitastic! 😃

Data Note 8A: These honorees on BlueSky are: @baconetti.bsky.social @momoshaty.bsky.social @cullenwade.bsky.social @drwalkingdead.bsky.social @scottryanfmp.bsky.social @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social @mffrench.bsky.social ...

Aca-Colleagues Essay emergency for Ageing Female Bodies for Palgrave on the following: -positive views of Aunt Gladys & recent hags -Latino texts like Phenomena [Fenómenas-2023], Crazy Old Woman [Vieja loca-2025], and La Llorona [2019] If interested email: [email protected]

My favourite kind of post….editor copy post. And even more so when it’s this little gem full of terrific essays on all things twins, clones and doppelgängers. 😃

Aca-Zombie-Colleagues Just published, The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie! Probably best accessed through your library it is the most wide-ranging study of the zombie megatext currently available and contains some of the best zombie scholars out there. a.co/d/dlvfXOA

Aca-Alien-Colleagues Abstract emergency for the Alien Franchise Companion on readings of Alien (or intersections with Predator) in relation to idigeniety, decolonialism, and folklore/folkhorror. If of interest drop me a line and/or a 300 word abstract to: [email protected]

Aca-Genre Fiction & Film-Colleagues Series Editor post. Atwood: A New Companion edited by Gina Wisker. No 18 in the Genre Fiction & Film Companion Series looks at Atwood & her ongoing cultural importance. If you have an idea for a Companion contact me at: [email protected]

Just been informed by Palgrave that Uncanny Doubles (aka Doppelgänger Gothic) has just been published (though confusingly you can’t buy it until 10th Jan next year?!?), but well done everyone for your terrific work in this! link.springer.com/book/9783031...

100 Draculas on Screen has been released just in time for the holidays. Featuring interviews with the actors, directors, and writers, such as Guy Maddin, Dolly Wells, Rudolph Martin, and Patrick Bergin, that gave undead life to the immortal Count. It’s Draculicious! www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4WPSH3...

Aca-Alien-Franchise-Colleagues I have gaps in an Aliens Franchise Companion the following: - Aliens comic books - Theological approaches - monsters/hybrids - crossovers (Predator/Blade Runner etc) - creative pieces inspired by the franchise Email me at: [email protected]

Aca-Urban-Horror- Colleagues I need a 300 word abstract asap on urban horror in futuristic city/urban spaces in East Asia. Could involve Alice in Borderland, Sweet Home, or even Tokyo Gore Police. Final essay of 5-6K needed end 2026. If interested email me: [email protected]

Aca-Comic-Colleagues A terrific new CFP put together by the wonderful Julia Round, Shambhavi Singh and Eszter Szép for the Companion to International Comics Studies (Intellect Books). Full details are in the photos below:

Aca-Alien-Colleagues I’m putting together a Companion on the Alien Franchise and have some gaps on abstracts about Alien Earth (all angles welcome), Romulus, and the crossover/influence with the Predator franchise. If of interest contact me at: [email protected]

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...