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  • The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children

    Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day

    Edited by Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature
    The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood. At the start of the 21st, new anxieties constellate around the child and childhood, while older concerns have re-emerged, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children

    Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day

    Edited by Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie ...
    Series series
    The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis, presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood. At the start of the 21st century, new anxieties constellate around the child and childhood, while older concerns have re ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children

    Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day

    Edited by Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie ...
    Series series
    The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis, presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood. At the start of the 21st century, new anxieties constellate around the child and childhood, while older concerns have re ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Uncanny Doubles

    Doppelgängers, Twins, Clones and the Gothic

    Edited by Simon Bacon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers an original and innovative study of how the intersection of the Doppelgänger and the Gothic reveals repressed aspects of our singular and collective past, while also serving as a lens to investigate ourselves and our historical moment. The concept of the doppelgänger has seen a resurgence in popular culture, with films and series like The Haunting of Bly Manor, Us, and Dark ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie

    Edited by Simon Bacon ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This Handbook is a unique encompassing overview of the figure of the Zombie. This project will show that while there are many zombies and many texts about zombies it is still often mistakenly viewed as little more than a sub-genre of Horror. However, its history and multiplicity warrants something far more ambitious in terms of cataloguing and defining its many forms, types and possible readings. ... Read more

    $584.99 USD

  • Lunar Gothic

    The Influence of the Moon on the Gothic Imagination

    Edited by Elana Gomel, Simon Bacon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the captivating intersection of lunar influence and the Gothic imagination, revealing how the moon has shaped narratives of horror, mystery, and transformation across cultures and media. Edited by Elana Gomel and Simon Bacon, this volume delves into the genre of Lunar Gothic, tracing its roots from ancient folklore to contemporary science fiction and horror. Readers will ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture

    Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century

    Edited by Simon Bacon ...
    An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environmental pandemics of our time. Exploring depictions of zombies across literature, poetry, ... Read more

    Was $93.99 USD Now $32.39 USD

  • Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Simon Bacon ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Horror
    Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American environments — both physical and immaterial — the book delves into the questions relating to American ... Read more

    $61.99 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

    $105.99 USD

  • Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture

    Edited by Simon Bacon ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
    Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them, seeing them become the ‘First Girls’ of this altered reality. The collection brings together a wide range of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD