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Simon Bacon
@baconetti.bsky.social
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.
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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: baconetti@gmail.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution
More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules
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October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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
The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.
link.springer.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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...
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.
link.springer.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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...
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.
link.springer.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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...
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.
link.springer.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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...
WEIMAR CFC
WEIMAR CFC
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September 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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: baconetti@gmail.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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...
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.
link.springer.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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 @: baconetti@googoemail.com

The original CFP is attached below:
August 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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...
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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August 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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. 😃
August 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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...
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, ...
www.academia.edu
July 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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 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.
link.springer.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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...
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.
link.springer.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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: baconetti@gmail.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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...
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.
link.springer.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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...
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.
link.springer.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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 @: baconetti@gmail.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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: baconetti@gmail.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reposted by Simon Bacon
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.
July 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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! 😃
July 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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...
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.
link.springer.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM