Simon Bacon is an award-winning writer and film critic based in Poznań, Poland. He is the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions with Peter Lang, to which he has also contributed The Gothic (2018), Horror (2019), Monsters (2020) and Transmedia Cultures (2021). He is also the editor of Transmedia Vampires (2021), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2022) and The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022). He has published a series of monographs on vampires in popular culture: Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), Dracula as Absolute Other (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Vampires from Another World (2021) and 1000 Vampires on Screen (forthcoming).

• Contents: Undead Cultures in the Global Present – Mikel J. Koven: Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018) – Folk Horror and the Undead – Cristina Santos: La Llorona (Various, 2006–2019) – Mexican Undead – Iain Robert Smith: Go Goa Gone (Raj and D. K., 2013) – Bollywood Undead – John R. Ziegler: Wakening (Danis Goulet, 2013) – Métis-Cree Undead – Naomi Simone Borwein: Killer Native (Bjorn Stewart, 2019) – Australian Aboriginal Undead – Katarzyna Ancuta: Seoul Station (Sang-ho Yeon, 2016) – South Korean Undead – The Undead and Never-ending Present – Dara Downey: The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan, 2018) – Domestic Undead – Tyler Unsell: The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy, 2016) – Undead Classroom – Antares Leask: ZOMBIES 2 (Paul Hoen, 2020) – Anti-racist Undead – Natalie Wilson: Deadgirl (Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, 2017) – Undead Rape Culture – Brandon R. Grafius: The Nun (Corin Hardy, 2018) – Religious Undead – Laura R. Kremmel: Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2019) – Medical Undead – Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli, 2002) – Ageing and the Undead – Gina Wisker: Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020) – Undead Heritage – Undying Identity – Leah Richards: AHS: Hotel (Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, 2015–2016) and The Strain (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, 2014–2017) – Undead Children – Sara Williams: Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018) – Undead Motherhood – Valerie Estelle Frankel: Game of Thrones (David Benioff, 2011–2019) – Undead Masculinity – Madeleine Mackenzie: Dorohedoro (Q Hayashida, 2000–2018) – Transgender Undead – Martine Mussies: «The Zombie Mermaid» (Katelynn E. Koontz, 2018) – Undead Mermaids – Gwyneth Peaty: Bloodthirsty (Amelia Moses, 2021) – Undead Celebrity – Antonio Alcala Gonzalez: Behemoth (Nergal and others, 1991–Present) – Extreme Metal and the Undead – Undead Futures – Persephone Braham: Wicked Weeds (Pedro Cabiya, 2011 [trans. 2016]) – Meta Undead – Jay Treagus and Nicola Young: Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) – The Undead and Afrofuturism – Mikaela Bobiy: Les Revenants (Fabrice Gobert, 2012–2015) – Environmental Undead – Catherine Pugh: Antisepticeye (Seán McLoughlin, 2016) – Online Undead – Ildikó Limpár: Westworld (Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, 2016–Present) – Posthuman Undead – Lorna Piatti-Farnell: Marvel Zombies (Robert Kirkman, Sean Phillips and Arthur Suydam, 2005–2006) – Undead Superheroes – Simon Bacon: The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah, 2018) – Universal Undead – Roger Luckhurst: Epilogue: The Death of Death – Zero K, Don DeLillo (2016).

Simon Bacon is an award-winning writer and film critic based in Poznań, Poland. He is the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions with Peter Lang, to which he has also contributed The Gothic (2018), Horror (2019), Monsters (2020) and Transmedia Cultures (2021). He is also the editor of Transmedia Vampires (2021), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2022) and The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022). He has published a series of monographs on vampires in popular culture: Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), Dracula as Absolute Other (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Vampires from Another World (2021) and 1000 Vampires on Screen (forthcoming).

• Contents: Undead Cultures in the Global Present – Mikel J. Koven: Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018) – Folk Horror and the Undead – Cristina Santos: La Llorona (Various, 2006–2019) – Mexican Undead – Iain Robert Smith: Go Goa Gone (Raj and D. K., 2013) – Bollywood Undead – John R. Ziegler: Wakening (Danis Goulet, 2013) – Métis-Cree Undead – Naomi Simone Borwein: Killer Native (Bjorn Stewart, 2019) – Australian Aboriginal Undead – Katarzyna Ancuta: Seoul Station (Sang-ho Yeon, 2016) – South Korean Undead – The Undead and Never-ending Present – Dara Downey: The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan, 2018) – Domestic Undead – Tyler Unsell: The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy, 2016) – Undead Classroom – Antares Leask: ZOMBIES 2 (Paul Hoen, 2020) – Anti-racist Undead – Natalie Wilson: Deadgirl (Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, 2017) – Undead Rape Culture – Brandon R. Grafius: The Nun (Corin Hardy, 2018) – Religious Undead – Laura R. Kremmel: Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2019) – Medical Undead – Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli, 2002) – Ageing and the Undead – Gina Wisker: Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020) – Undead Heritage – Undying Identity – Leah Richards: AHS: Hotel (Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, 2015–2016) and The Strain (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, 2014–2017) – Undead Children – Sara Williams: Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018) – Undead Motherhood – Valerie Estelle Frankel: Game of Thrones (David Benioff, 2011–2019) – Undead Masculinity – Madeleine Mackenzie: Dorohedoro (Q Hayashida, 2000–2018) – Transgender Undead – Martine Mussies: «The Zombie Mermaid» (Katelynn E. Koontz, 2018) – Undead Mermaids – Gwyneth Peaty: Bloodthirsty (Amelia Moses, 2021) – Undead Celebrity – Antonio Alcala Gonzalez: Behemoth (Nergal and others, 1991–Present) – Extreme Metal and the Undead – Undead Futures – Persephone Braham: Wicked Weeds (Pedro Cabiya, 2011 [trans. 2016]) – Meta Undead – Jay Treagus and Nicola Young: Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) – The Undead and Afrofuturism – Mikaela Bobiy: Les Revenants (Fabrice Gobert, 2012–2015) – Environmental Undead – Catherine Pugh: Antisepticeye (Seán McLoughlin, 2016) – Online Undead – Ildikó Limpár: Westworld (Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, 2016–Present) – Posthuman Undead – Lorna Piatti-Farnell: Marvel Zombies (Robert Kirkman, Sean Phillips and Arthur Suydam, 2005–2006) – Undead Superheroes – Simon Bacon: The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah, 2018) – Universal Undead – Roger Luckhurst: Epilogue: The Death of Death – Zero K, Don DeLillo (2016).

Simon Bacon is an award-winning writer and film critic based in Poznań, Poland. He is the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions with Peter Lang, to which he has also contributed The Gothic (2018), Horror (2019), Monsters (2020) and Transmedia Cultures (2021). He is also the editor of Transmedia Vampires (2021), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2022) and The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022). He has published a series of monographs on vampires in popular culture: Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), Dracula as Absolute Other (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Vampires from Another World (2021) and 1000 Vampires on Screen (forthcoming).

• Contents: Undead Cultures in the Global Present – Mikel J. Koven: Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018) – Folk Horror and the Undead – Cristina Santos: La Llorona (Various, 2006–2019) – Mexican Undead – Iain Robert Smith: Go Goa Gone (Raj and D. K., 2013) – Bollywood Undead – John R. Ziegler: Wakening (Danis Goulet, 2013) – Métis-Cree Undead – Naomi Simone Borwein: Killer Native (Bjorn Stewart, 2019) – Australian Aboriginal Undead – Katarzyna Ancuta: Seoul Station (Sang-ho Yeon, 2016) – South Korean Undead – The Undead and Never-ending Present – Dara Downey: The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan, 2018) – Domestic Undead – Tyler Unsell: The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy, 2016) – Undead Classroom – Antares Leask: ZOMBIES 2 (Paul Hoen, 2020) – Anti-racist Undead – Natalie Wilson: Deadgirl (Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, 2017) – Undead Rape Culture – Brandon R. Grafius: The Nun (Corin Hardy, 2018) – Religious Undead – Laura R. Kremmel: Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2019) – Medical Undead – Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli, 2002) – Ageing and the Undead – Gina Wisker: Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020) – Undead Heritage – Undying Identity – Leah Richards: AHS: Hotel (Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, 2015–2016) and The Strain (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, 2014–2017) – Undead Children – Sara Williams: Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018) – Undead Motherhood – Valerie Estelle Frankel: Game of Thrones (David Benioff, 2011–2019) – Undead Masculinity – Madeleine Mackenzie: Dorohedoro (Q Hayashida, 2000–2018) – Transgender Undead – Martine Mussies: «The Zombie Mermaid» (Katelynn E. Koontz, 2018) – Undead Mermaids – Gwyneth Peaty: Bloodthirsty (Amelia Moses, 2021) – Undead Celebrity – Antonio Alcala Gonzalez: Behemoth (Nergal and others, 1991–Present) – Extreme Metal and the Undead – Undead Futures – Persephone Braham: Wicked Weeds (Pedro Cabiya, 2011 [trans. 2016]) – Meta Undead – Jay Treagus and Nicola Young: Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) – The Undead and Afrofuturism – Mikaela Bobiy: Les Revenants (Fabrice Gobert, 2012–2015) – Environmental Undead – Catherine Pugh: Antisepticeye (Seán McLoughlin, 2016) – Online Undead – Ildikó Limpár: Westworld (Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, 2016–Present) – Posthuman Undead – Lorna Piatti-Farnell: Marvel Zombies (Robert Kirkman, Sean Phillips and Arthur Suydam, 2005–2006) – Undead Superheroes – Simon Bacon: The Cloverfield Paradox (Julius Onah, 2018) – Universal Undead – Roger Luckhurst: Epilogue: The Death of Death – Zero K, Don DeLillo (2016).