Simon Bacon
@baconetti
Author, film critic, and editor of all things Monstrous, Vampiric and Gothicky
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/referencework/…
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/referencework/…
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]
There looks to be some fascinating writing on fairies in this new publication! I’m honored to have some stanzas included from one of my longer poems inspired by the more Gothic side of Faerie. Many thanks to editors @baconetti and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. peterlang.com/document/14001…
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! 😃
Zombie Handbook moving along, only 20 left to go: - 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/referencework/…
Zombie Habdbook is moving along…only 20 more to go: - 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/referencework/…
Excited to see this out, it includes a lot of great material
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! 😃
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]
Hey, I'm there! (on the creepy film Don't be afraid of the dark, from 1973). Congrats, @baconetti
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! 😃
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]
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 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/referencework/…
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/referencework/…
Exciting news! My new novel DARK HEART is now available in paperback — just £7.99 / $9.99 from Amazon. To celebrate, I’m giving away a FREE copy! To enter: 📚 Repost this 👤 Follow me Winner will be announced Sunday, July 6th! #NewBooks #goodreads #thrillers #GIVEAWAY
New SI of @ParagraphEUP on "Thinking Care in the 21st Century" now published. The SI is dedicated to the memory of Isabelle McNeill and Isabelle's article is the free-to-read one. My article on "reactionary feminism" and why we need *more* not *less* female freedom is also here.
🌟Just published🌟: 48:2, SI on "Thinking Care in the 21st Century" ed. Jasmine Cooper & Katie Pleming. This issue is dedicated to the memory of Isabelle McNeill who is very profoundly missed. Isabelle's article is the free-to-read article at the link. euppublishing.com/toc/para/48/2
Thank you to SFS @french_studies for a fantastic conference at @BristolUni! Many thanks to @profnatedwards, Kate Foster, @TobiasLDBarn, and all those who helped organise. Great to catch up with so many people and meet new PhDs! My view for three days #SFSBristol
Two days until I chat about my research on the Televisual Gothic at Darkness in the Fields: Midsummer! You can still get tickets here if you’re interested: eventbrite.com/e/darkness-in-…
The latest volumes in the Horror Studies series are here. Presenting our first collection on comics and our first (expanded) reprint of a much sought-after classic. Congrats to everyone involved on these books! 👏🎊🥳 uwp.co.uk/series/categor…