Simon Bacon is an independent scholar working in Poland. He has previously edited works such as Gothic: A Reader, Horror: A Companion and Monsters: A Companion. Previous monographs include Becoming Vampire, Dracula as Absolute Other, Eco-Vampires, Vampires From Another World, and Unhallowed Ground.

• Introduction SECTION ONE: ZOMBIE NORMALSPart I: Patient Zero: The Zombie SocietyKatarzyna AncutaJ is for Jombi: The Social Concerns of Korean ZombiesDebaditya MukhopadhyayEat or be Eaten: a Socio-Political Reading of the Zombies of Ghost StoriesCarl WilsonThe Future of Resident Evil Video Games: Remakes, Revivals, and the RE EnginePart II: The Contagion of Consumerism and NeoliberalismAlberto Añón LaraKingdom and the Rise of the Zombie in South Korean Television FictionTom UeRage, Revenge, and Redress in André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the DarkDave Jeffery‘Consumerism will eat the future’ :Consumerism During and After the Apocalypse in Army of the Dead (2021) and Necropolis Rising (2010-17)Part III: Disability and the Mental Health PandemicDavid EdwardsZombies and Mental Health: Place, Space and the Post-Millennial ApocalypseLynn Huggins-CooperFear and Loathing: Mental Illness and the Othering of the ZombieCatherine Pugh‘Say Something Human’: Identity, Disability and the Self-Aware ZombieSECTION TWO: NEW ZOMBIE NORMALSPart IV: Gender, Sexuality, and the ZombieEoin MurrayBody and Soul: A Trans-Reading of Resident Evil: Code Veronica’s Alfred AshfordMartine MussiesZombie Mermaids: ‘The Lake of Mystery’ (Tooba 2023)Renita SörensdotterWomen and Girls as Survivors in Zombie Films: How Gender, Race and Age Matters for Shaping the Hope for a Better WorldPart V: Eco-zombies and the Environmental PandemicBeth Michael-FoxThe Future is Ash: Climate Crisis and Human Responsibility in The FadesDaniel Otto Jack PetersonA Blackfeet Biology of Postapocalypse: Tracking Ecomonstrous Transmotion in the Zombie Fiction of Stephen Graham JonesTeresa FitzpatrickFungal Futures: Eco-Zombies in the 21st CenturyJohn R. ZieglerThe Posthuman Eco-Zombie and the End of the Capitalocene in Endzeit [Ever After](Hellsgård: 2018)Part VI: Beyond the Pandemic, New Normals and New NormativesIldikó LimpárMatters of the Heart When the Brain is Attacked: Zombification and Its Consequences in HBO’s The Last of UsSharon Coleclough‘A chance to give your life purpose and meaning’: The Evolution and Testing of the Future Zombie in Star Trek: Picard Nikoleta Zampaki and Peggy KarpouzouThe Poetics of Zombification in Ryan Mecum’s Dawn of Zombie Haiku Index

They are risen … again! This impressive new collection of essays contributes to the ever-expanding field of Zombie/Undead scholarship. Covering rich and varied themes: late-stage capitalism, zombie mermaids, mental illness the undead, eco-zombies and more are examined within this wide-reaching consideration of the future zombie as we stagger on through the 21st Century.

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar working in Poland. He has previously edited works such as Gothic: A Reader, Horror: A Companion and Monsters: A Companion. Previous monographs include Becoming Vampire, Dracula as Absolute Other, Eco-Vampires, Vampires From Another World, and Unhallowed Ground.

• Introduction SECTION ONE: ZOMBIE NORMALSPart I: Patient Zero: The Zombie SocietyKatarzyna AncutaJ is for Jombi: The Social Concerns of Korean ZombiesDebaditya MukhopadhyayEat or be Eaten: a Socio-Political Reading of the Zombies of Ghost StoriesCarl WilsonThe Future of Resident Evil Video Games: Remakes, Revivals, and the RE EnginePart II: The Contagion of Consumerism and NeoliberalismAlberto Añón LaraKingdom and the Rise of the Zombie in South Korean Television FictionTom UeRage, Revenge, and Redress in André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the DarkDave Jeffery‘Consumerism will eat the future’ :Consumerism During and After the Apocalypse in Army of the Dead (2021) and Necropolis Rising (2010-17)Part III: Disability and the Mental Health PandemicDavid EdwardsZombies and Mental Health: Place, Space and the Post-Millennial ApocalypseLynn Huggins-CooperFear and Loathing: Mental Illness and the Othering of the ZombieCatherine Pugh‘Say Something Human’: Identity, Disability and the Self-Aware ZombieSECTION TWO: NEW ZOMBIE NORMALSPart IV: Gender, Sexuality, and the ZombieEoin MurrayBody and Soul: A Trans-Reading of Resident Evil: Code Veronica’s Alfred AshfordMartine MussiesZombie Mermaids: ‘The Lake of Mystery’ (Tooba 2023)Renita SörensdotterWomen and Girls as Survivors in Zombie Films: How Gender, Race and Age Matters for Shaping the Hope for a Better WorldPart V: Eco-zombies and the Environmental PandemicBeth Michael-FoxThe Future is Ash: Climate Crisis and Human Responsibility in The FadesDaniel Otto Jack PetersonA Blackfeet Biology of Postapocalypse: Tracking Ecomonstrous Transmotion in the Zombie Fiction of Stephen Graham JonesTeresa FitzpatrickFungal Futures: Eco-Zombies in the 21st CenturyJohn R. ZieglerThe Posthuman Eco-Zombie and the End of the Capitalocene in Endzeit [Ever After](Hellsgård: 2018)Part VI: Beyond the Pandemic, New Normals and New NormativesIldikó LimpárMatters of the Heart When the Brain is Attacked: Zombification and Its Consequences in HBO’s The Last of UsSharon Coleclough‘A chance to give your life purpose and meaning’: The Evolution and Testing of the Future Zombie in Star Trek: Picard Nikoleta Zampaki and Peggy KarpouzouThe Poetics of Zombification in Ryan Mecum’s Dawn of Zombie Haiku Index

They are risen … again! This impressive new collection of essays contributes to the ever-expanding field of Zombie/Undead scholarship. Covering rich and varied themes: late-stage capitalism, zombie mermaids, mental illness the undead, eco-zombies and more are examined within this wide-reaching consideration of the future zombie as we stagger on through the 21st Century.

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar working in Poland. He has previously edited works such as Gothic: A Reader, Horror: A Companion and Monsters: A Companion. Previous monographs include Becoming Vampire, Dracula as Absolute Other, Eco-Vampires, Vampires From Another World, and Unhallowed Ground.

• Introduction SECTION ONE: ZOMBIE NORMALSPart I: Patient Zero: The Zombie SocietyKatarzyna AncutaJ is for Jombi: The Social Concerns of Korean ZombiesDebaditya MukhopadhyayEat or be Eaten: a Socio-Political Reading of the Zombies of Ghost StoriesCarl WilsonThe Future of Resident Evil Video Games: Remakes, Revivals, and the RE EnginePart II: The Contagion of Consumerism and NeoliberalismAlberto Añón LaraKingdom and the Rise of the Zombie in South Korean Television FictionTom UeRage, Revenge, and Redress in André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the DarkDave Jeffery‘Consumerism will eat the future’ :Consumerism During and After the Apocalypse in Army of the Dead (2021) and Necropolis Rising (2010-17)Part III: Disability and the Mental Health PandemicDavid EdwardsZombies and Mental Health: Place, Space and the Post-Millennial ApocalypseLynn Huggins-CooperFear and Loathing: Mental Illness and the Othering of the ZombieCatherine Pugh‘Say Something Human’: Identity, Disability and the Self-Aware ZombieSECTION TWO: NEW ZOMBIE NORMALSPart IV: Gender, Sexuality, and the ZombieEoin MurrayBody and Soul: A Trans-Reading of Resident Evil: Code Veronica’s Alfred AshfordMartine MussiesZombie Mermaids: ‘The Lake of Mystery’ (Tooba 2023)Renita SörensdotterWomen and Girls as Survivors in Zombie Films: How Gender, Race and Age Matters for Shaping the Hope for a Better WorldPart V: Eco-zombies and the Environmental PandemicBeth Michael-FoxThe Future is Ash: Climate Crisis and Human Responsibility in The FadesDaniel Otto Jack PetersonA Blackfeet Biology of Postapocalypse: Tracking Ecomonstrous Transmotion in the Zombie Fiction of Stephen Graham JonesTeresa FitzpatrickFungal Futures: Eco-Zombies in the 21st CenturyJohn R. ZieglerThe Posthuman Eco-Zombie and the End of the Capitalocene in Endzeit [Ever After](Hellsgård: 2018)Part VI: Beyond the Pandemic, New Normals and New NormativesIldikó LimpárMatters of the Heart When the Brain is Attacked: Zombification and Its Consequences in HBO’s The Last of UsSharon Coleclough‘A chance to give your life purpose and meaning’: The Evolution and Testing of the Future Zombie in Star Trek: Picard Nikoleta Zampaki and Peggy KarpouzouThe Poetics of Zombification in Ryan Mecum’s Dawn of Zombie Haiku Index

They are risen … again! This impressive new collection of essays contributes to the ever-expanding field of Zombie/Undead scholarship. Covering rich and varied themes: late-stage capitalism, zombie mermaids, mental illness the undead, eco-zombies and more are examined within this wide-reaching consideration of the future zombie as we stagger on through the 21st Century.