Simon Bacon

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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, ...

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 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.

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.

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: baconetti@gmail.com

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.

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.

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 @: baconetti@gmail.com

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

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! 😃

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.

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.

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...

Fabulous

Great essay

There’s some terrific essays in it!

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! 😃

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

The cover of the book "The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion" showing the series' typical photo of light streaming through three gothic windows of a church, this time, with the tint turned a blood red.

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...

Fabulous

On the left, the cover of the book "Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century," with an orange and white computerized line drawing of a large city with tall buildings.

On the right, a grey-toned promotional image from the 2010 vampire movie STAKE LAND in which a dark-haired man in sunglasses who looks like he's been through a war stands in front of an American flag.

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...

Thankyou kindly Lex! 😀

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: steffenhantke@gmail.com before 15 June 2025.

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.

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: baconetti@gmail.com

No probs