Simon Bacon
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Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
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.
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Aca-Christmas-Horror-Colleagues Iāve an emergency for an essay on eco-horror and Christmas involving supernatural or magical creatures, pointing to a pagan/folk horror past. Canāt involve ghosts but can be in any media. If interested drop me a message to:
[email protected]
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Iāve been involved in earlier iterations of these books and theyāre absolutely terrific. So if you want to help get the latest one on āSubversive Sci-fi: Evolutionā out into the world (and on your book shelf) follow the link to their kickstarter page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
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Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution
More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ghostshowpress/subversive-sci-fi-evolution/
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Final 2 essays for The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie: The Zombie Megatext are now live online (90 in total): - āZombie Rhetoricā by Kendall Phillips & Connor Knowlan. - āHaitian Originsā by Sarah Juliet Lauro & Lucy Swanson. They can be found here:
link.springer.com/referencewor...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=2#toc
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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...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
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Now at 88 for The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (2/2) š -Italian Zombie Horrors by Matthew Jones -Hong Kongās 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...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
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More essays online for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombieā¦.only 9 left to go! ā āAn Apocalypse without Zombiesā by Steffen Hantke ā āThe Women Who Defy the Undeadā by Mo Moshaty. And they can be found here:
link.springer.com/referencewor...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
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Aca-WeimarCinena-Colleagues Just out, an absolutely terrific CFP by Dr Elisabetta Girelli on āMasculinities in Weimar Cinemaā Full details in the link below:
www.academia.edu/143948408/WE...
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https://www.academia.edu/143948408/WEIMAR_CFC?source=swp_share
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Aca-Vampy/Gaming-Colleagues. Iāve got a collection on āSelling the Vampireā 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]
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Aca-Crime-Collegues Great conference led by Dr Charlotte Barnes which is a must for all you Crime folks out there: āAn Awkward Marriage: Considering the serial killerās social standing in a changing British cultureā For full details see link below.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
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cfp | call for papers
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/12/call-for-papers-an-awkward-marriage-considering-the-serial-killer%E2%80%99s-social-standing
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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...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
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I have a collection on āContagion: Cryptids, Panic and the Monsters of Anxietyā and Iām 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:
3 months ago
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Oohhh excitingā¦.The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (The Zombie Megatext) finally has a placeholder on Amazonā¦and a release date. The horde should be released in January next year! šš§āāļøš§āāļøš§āāļøš§āāļø
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie [Bacon, Simon] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
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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. š
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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...
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Disney: A Companion, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Simon Bacon
The editors invite abstracts for a forthcoming edited volume entitled Disney: A Companion, which will offer a comprehensive critical exploration of The Walt Disney Company's cultural, historical, ...
https://www.academia.edu/143102016/Disney_A_Companion_edited_by_Lorna_Piatti_Farnell_and_Simon_Bacon
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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...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=2#toc
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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...
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The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=2#toc
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Aca-AlienFranchise-Colleagues Itās 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]
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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...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=2#toc
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Zombie Habdbook is moving alongā¦only 20 more to go (1 of 2): - The Inexorable March of the Roman Catholic Zombieā 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...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=2#toc
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Aca-Horror-Colleagues Iāve 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]
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Aca-Gothic-Colleagues Got a book for Routledge where I need 5,000 words by end Oct 2025 on the following: āThe 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]
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Simon Bacon
Dr Cat Conway
4 months ago
My analysis of the intergenerational racism and trauma in
@gradyhendrix.bsky.social
ās THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBāS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES is available in TOXIC NOSTALGIA ON SCREEN: Undead Memory in the 21st Century, edited by
@baconetti.bsky.social
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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! š
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Update No1 for the Handbook of the Zombie-now at 62! -Zombies and Cosmetic Surgery by Gwyneth Peaty -Romeroās 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...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
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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 Americaās Wars by Peter Dendle And they can all be found here:
link.springer.com/referencewor...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
4 months ago
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Ooohhhā¦.super exciting. We finally have a cover for āUncanny Doubles: DoppelgƤngers, Twins, CLones and the Gothicāā¦.not too much longer before weāre on proofs and hopefully out before the end of the year! š
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Wooooootā¦the vampires have landed! They look beautiful and packed to the brim with vampy goodness. š
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Simon Bacon
Horror LexĀ®
5 months ago
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
ā¬w/many contribs
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-vam...
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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
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www.routledge.com/Vampires-and...
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One of the perks of being a series editor is I get a copy of all the newly published booksā¦.and this beauty by the terrific Kristoffer Woofter and Carl Sederholm just arrived! If youāve any interest in The Weird you should get this book!
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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.
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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.
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New essays online for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie: ā āZora Neale Hurston in Contextā by Gina Wisker ā āThe Mummy & the Vengeful Undeadā by Michael Goodrum ā āBooks of the Deadā by Kevin Wetmore And you can find them here:
link.springer.com/referencewor...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
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Laurel Plapp
7 months ago
#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
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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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Great essay
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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...
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Peter Lang Verlag - The Weird
Weird works unsettle, decentering humanity on a cosmic scale and, at other times, breaking down the human barriers erected around race, class, gender, ...
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1321928
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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...
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=3#toc
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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 šhttps://forms.gle/XUsmPfBsXju2XpcR9 (due 15 May 2025)
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7 months ago
Excited to see my essay about
#JeanRollin
and the French
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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
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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...
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The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
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Aca-Gothic-Games-Colleagues I need some abstracts for āThe Dark Side of Play and Gamesā project on the following: ā Gothic/horror themes in toys ā Monster/Fantasy boardgames. ā Dolls, dollhouses on film ā scary video games meant for children. Abstracts to:
[email protected]
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And hot on the heels of the cover revealā¦we have a placeholder for Lunar Gothic on the Springer site! š
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Lunar Gothic
This book delves into the significance of the moon in Gothic texts, defining Lunar Gothic genre, examining its articulations in non-Western texts.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031926204
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Aca-CursedArchive-Colleagues Have a collection on Cursed Archives (Memory-Trauma-Revenge) and need abstracts on the following: ā Grimoires/Necronomicon ā The Stone Tapes or memory-filled objects ā Rooms/Houses ā Language/Music ā Landscape/Forest/Seashore Send abstracts to:
[email protected]
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Aca-Cannibal-Colleagues. Consuming Identity is looking terrific, but I could do with abstracts on the following: ā Afrofuturism ā Folkhorror/Werewolves ā Sexuality/Gender/Queerness ā Soylent Green & beyond ā Skineaters ā Humanoid Alien Species If interested drop me a line at:
[email protected]
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So excitingā¦we have a cover for Lunar Gothic and itās sooo beautiful! š¤©
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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]
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Aca-MonstrousConsumption-Colleagues Started going through the abstracts for the Monstrous Consumption, & Consuming Identity (Cannibal) Projects, if youāve not sent me anything yet & are really keen to be considered for either or both projects send me something ASAP (
[email protected]
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Couple more essays for the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie: ā āLove and Romance in Zombie Narrativesā by Ildikó LimpĆ”r ā āHaroldās Going Stiff: Aging and Mental Health in Zombie Narrativesā by Mark Fryers They can be found here:
link.springer.com/referencewor...
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The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7?page=1#toc
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