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  • Fairies

    A Companion

    by Simon Bacon ...
    Series Book 17 - Genre Fiction and Film Companions
    Fairies: A Companion provides a unique and unparalleled view of the ubiquity of fairies and fairy culture across the world, in its many expressions and manifestations. As well as providing historical perspectives on our belief in the fae, the companion also uniquely traces their ongoing evolution and their importance to culture in the 21st century and beyond. Including original artworks, poems and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Becoming Vampire

    Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture

    by Simon Bacon ...
    Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity positions. Whilst focusing on the films Let Me In and Let the Right One In to highlight the referential and intertextual nature of ... Read more

    $94.69 USD

  • Vampires from Another World

    The Cinematic Progeny of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Bram Stoker's Dracula

    by Simon Bacon ...
    This book begins at the intersection of Dracula and War of the Worlds, both published in 1897 London, and describes the settings of Transylvania, Mars, and London as worlds linked by the body of the vampire. It explores the "vampire from another world" in all its various forms, as a manifestation of not just our anxieties around alien others, but also our alien selves.Unsurprisingly, many of the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Contagion and the Vampire

    The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century

    by Simon Bacon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease—even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics. Here the vampire gives physical form to the contagion and associated anxieties around the perceived causes and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Eco-Vampires

    The Undead and the Environment

    by Simon Bacon ...
    This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead. Many of these texts and films show the vampire to be an essential part of a global ecosystem and an organism that can no longer tolerate the all-consuming forces of globalization and consumerism. Re-examining Bram Stoker's Dracula and a range of other vampire narratives, primarily films, in a fresh ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Dracula as Absolute Other

    The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen

    by Simon Bacon ...
    Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age.This book is a study of Dracula's role of absolute Other as it appears on screen, and an investigation of popular culture's continued fascination with vampires.Drawing on vampire ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Disney Gothic

    Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse

    by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Murray Leeder, Terry Lindvall, Jay Bamber, Carl H. Sederholm, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Gwyneth Peaty, Kevin J. Wetmore0, J.S. Mackley1, Nancy Johnson-Hunt2, Antonio Sanna3, Christy Tidwell4, Joan Ormrod5, Angelique Nairn6, Simon Bacon7, Blair Speakman8 ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Toxic Nostalgia on Screen

    Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century

    by Simon Bacon, Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer, Andrew M. Boylan, John Conlan, Cathleen Allyn Conway, Miranda Corcoran, Aksel Dadswell, Matthias De Bondt, Cristina Diamant, Duncan Hubber0, Kathleen Hudson1, Mo Moshaty2, Paulina Palmer3, Theresa Porter4, Lyz Reblin-Renshaw5, Katharina Rein6, Valeria Villegas Lindvall7, Brandon R. Grafius8, Steffen Hantke9, Kevin J. Wetmore,Jr.0, Dr Reece Goodall1 ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleToxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present, can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a dangerous longing for the past, but a way of being in the ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Giving the Devil His Due

    Satan and Cinema

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Regina M. Hansen, Simon Bacon, Katherine A. Fowkes, David Hauka, Russ Hunter, Barry C. Knowlton, Eloise R. Knowlton, Murray Leeder0, R. Barton Palmer1, Carl H. Sederholm2, David Sterritt3, J.P. Telotte4 ...
    **Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (**Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires, reflecting ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Gothic Afterlives

    Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media

    by Simon Bacon, Simon Brown, Matthew Crofts, Cheryl Hague, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, Lorna Jowett, Deborah Kennedy, Jeanette Laredo, Gwyneth Peaty, Matthew Thompson, Emerald L. King, Stacey Abbott ...
    Series series Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
    Gothic Afterlives examines the intersecting dimensions of contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship, bringing together innovative perspectives from different areas of study. The research compiled in this collection covers a wide range of examples, including not only literature but also film, television, video games, and digital media remakes. Gothic Afterlives signals the cultural and ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Vampire Musings

    by Bertena Varney, Kathryne LeFevre, Audrey A'Cladh, Azurdee Garland, Stavros Cockrell, Bitten Twice, Carrie Rogers, Isabella Gibbons, Jacqueline Gibbons, Kyle Germann, Mary Jackson, Matthew Banks, Phaedra Walker, Roxanne Rhoads, Simon Bacon, Selah Janel ...
    Welcome to Vampire Musings. My name is Bertena, and I am the publisher of this macabre book. Since I was a small child, I have loved vampires and even spent most of my college years studying the Lure of the Vampire. From these studies, I met so many wonderful writers, musicians, and academicians who share this love as well. I have noticed that the lure of the vampire comes and goes over time, but ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Supernatural Revamped

    From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

    by Simon Bacon, Jessica Birch, Scott Culpepper, Paul E. H. Davis, Sarah Heaton, Darren Hibbs, C. Austin Hill, Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, Tommy Kuusela, Kayleigh Murphy, Andrea Shaw Nevins, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer, Masaya Shimokusu, Ashley Szanter, Mark David Ryan, Matthias Teichert, Cynthia Vinney, Caryn Wiley-Rapoport, Todd K. Platts ...
    This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the ... Read more

    $47.79 USD