Simon Bacon
@baconetti
Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
Aca-Serial-Killer-Colleagues Short essays (2,5-3K words) for a Companion on Serial Killers: • Cinema, psychopathy, and social commentary • Indian true crime cinema, and • Celebrity serial killers, myth-making, and cinema portrayals, Full details of the CFP in attached photo
Hi Folks…need your help. Got a book with Routledge on “Global Vampires and National Identity” and their usual range of less-than-exciting cover choices. I’ve picked 4 that “zinged” when I looked at them, but which one do you like? (Use the number at the top of each image)
A terrific new volume on Ray Bradbury, edited by Kevin Wetmore Jr., has just been published in the Genre Film and Fiction Companion Series I run. If you have an idea for a Companion on a genre/subgenre, or an important director/author/creative please do contact me to discuss (baconetti@gmail.com)
Aca-Contagion-Colleagues I have a collection on “Contagion: Pandemics, Cryptids and Monsters!” and need essays on the following: — the contagious nature of “monstrous” conspiracy theories — the contagion (and cryptids) of urban myth Contact me at: baconetti@gmail.com
My favourite kind of book post…free editor copies of the paperback edition book post! And ain’t they pretty! (Beautiful cover art by Derek Newman-Stille 😃)
My favourite kind of post…editor-copy post…and this one was a doozy. So many terrific essays by so many terrific authors. It’s Zombitastic! 😃
My favourite kind of post….editor copy post. And even more so when it’s this little gem full of terrific essays on all things twins, clones and doppelgängers. 😃
Aca-Genre Fiction & Film-Colleagues Series Editor post. Atwood: A New Companion edited by Gina Wisker. No 18 in the Genre Fiction & Film Companion Series looks at Atwood & her ongoing cultural importance. If you have an idea for a Companion contact me at: baconetti@gmail.com
100 Draculas on Screen has been released just in time for the holidays. Featuring interviews with the actors, directors, and writers, such as Guy Maddin, Dolly Wells, Rudolph Martin, and Patrick Bergin, that gave undead life to the immortal Count. It’s Draculicious! www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4WPSH3...
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:
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 @: baconetti@googoemail.com The original CFP is attached below:
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. 😃
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: baconetti@gmail.com
Ooohhh….super exciting. We finally have a cover for “Uncanny Doubles: Doppelgängers, Twins, CLones and the Gothic”….not too much longer before we’re on proofs and hopefully out before the end of the year! 😃
Woooooot…the vampires have landed! They look beautiful and packed to the brim with vampy goodness. 😃
One of the perks of being a series editor is I get a copy of all the newly published books….and this beauty by the terrific Kristoffer Woofter and Carl Sederholm just arrived! If you’ve any interest in The Weird you should get this book!
Feast your eyes on this beauty...the cover for the soon to be published Fairies: A Companion edited by the ever amazing Lorna Piatti-Farnell and myself.
Terrific new edited collection by my good colleague Steffen Hantke: CFP: Fearful Performances: Stardom, Skill, and Style of Acting in the Horror Film More details in the attached images but email your proposal/abstract/questions to: steffenhantke@gmail.com before 15 June 2025.
Aca-Vampy-Colleagues. Essay emergency for a collection on Vampires and Music for Lexington Books, deadlining this Summer. Because of Sinners I need a 5-6,000 word essay on Music/Vampires/Sinners by end of July 2025. If interested contact me at: baconetti@gmail.com
CFP: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland We're nearing the last few weeks for our Call for Papers for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - A Companion. Full CFP in the images and below, and abstract submission form here 👉https://forms.gle/XUsmPfBsXju2XpcR9 (due 15 May 2025)
Aca-Terrifier-Colleagues. Essay Emergency: I need an essay on Terrifier 3 for a book on Undead Christmas by end April (2025). 5-6,000 words and ideally touch on any the following: Eco-horror/Anthropocene/Capitalism-Consumerism. If interested email me at: baconetti@gmail.com
This is lovely news…though I think it’s more for all the terrific authors that wrote the 90+ essays in the Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire ….so well done everyone! 😃
Aca-Clive Barker-Colleagues. CFP: “We have such sights to show you”: The Cross-media Works of Clive Barker Full info in attached photo. Abstracts & notice of interest to: David Edwards (davidmgedwards511@gmail.com) & Simon Bacon (baconetti@googlemail.com) by end September 2025
I don’t often get the paper versions of books but these beauties from Bloomsbury turned up today signalling that Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds is an almost affordable price now (it’s even more prescient given the recent turn in world events)
In case you missed it: CFP: Vampires and Fashion Details in attached pictures. Abstracts of 300 words or inquiries of interest contact: vampiresandfashion@gmail.com
Just in case you missed it, here’s the CFP for the terrific CFP on Alice in Wonderland which, if it’s anything like the previous volume on Through the Looking Glass, will be amazing. Do get in touch. For inquiries email: wonderlandbook2025@gmail.com
Aca-Nosferatu-Colleagues. CFP: In the Shadow of Orlok Exciting new collection from Phil Fitzsimmons & myself on our favourite nasty vampire, from Murnau to Egger and all shades between. Details in attached image or email us at: philfitz77@gmail.com & baconetti@googlemail.com
Aca-Mothers&Horror-Colleagues CFP: Mothers, Mothering, Horror and Terror in Television, Film, and Literature (see attached images) Has a couple of gaps that urgently need filling. If interested drop them a line at motherhorrordemeter@gmail.com asap (deadline negotiable):