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Simon Bacon
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Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
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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]
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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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:
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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]
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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
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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]
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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
www.kickstarter.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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
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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...
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
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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
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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
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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
www.academia.edu
September 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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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]
September 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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:

“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
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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...
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
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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:
August 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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
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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. 😃
August 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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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...
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
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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...
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
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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...
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
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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]
July 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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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...
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
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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
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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]
July 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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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:

—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]
July 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM