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)

Aca-Urban-Horror-Colleagues I need 2 abstracts for a Companion on Urban Horror - Backrooms as a symptom/product/experience of the Urban. -Satanism and the City. At this stage just a 300 word abstract is needed. If interested contact me at: baconetti@gmail.com

Aca-Cryptid-Colleagues I need one more essay by end October for the Contagion & Cryptids collection on a “real world” cryptid (Mothman, Bigfoot, Jersey Devil, Slenderman etc) that also has a contagious nature to it. If interested contact me at: baconetti@gmail.com

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

Aca-Women & Film-Friends Colleagues are compiling a Companion on “Women in Screen” but need the following: -Women in contemporary Indian cinema -Women of colour in erotic, transgressive or experimental cinemas -Women, television & audience If interested email Dr McRae: donna.mcrae@deakin.edu.au

Aca-Neo-Victorian-Crime-Colleagues We have an emergency for an abstract on a South American perspective on Neo-Victorian Crime for a Companion on Neo-Victorian Crime. If it's of interest message me or drop me a line asap 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 😃)

'Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century,' edited by @baconetti.bsky.social This collection follows the vampire across the US to consider what cultural and historical environments have gone towards creating the contemporary undead. www.routledge.com/Vampires-and...

Aca-Disney-Colleagues Do I know anyone who’d want to write something on Disney comics? If “yes” drop me a line at: baconetti@gmail.com

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! 😃

Data Note 8A: These honorees on BlueSky are: @baconetti.bsky.social @momoshaty.bsky.social @cullenwade.bsky.social @drwalkingdead.bsky.social @scottryanfmp.bsky.social @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social @mffrench.bsky.social ...

Aca-Colleagues Essay emergency for Ageing Female Bodies for Palgrave on the following: -positive views of Aunt Gladys & recent hags -Latino texts like Phenomena [Fenómenas-2023], Crazy Old Woman [Vieja loca-2025], and La Llorona [2019] If interested email: baconetti@gmail.com

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-Zombie-Colleagues Just published, The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie! Probably best accessed through your library it is the most wide-ranging study of the zombie megatext currently available and contains some of the best zombie scholars out there. a.co/d/dlvfXOA

Aca-Alien-Colleagues Abstract emergency for the Alien Franchise Companion on readings of Alien (or intersections with Predator) in relation to idigeniety, decolonialism, and folklore/folkhorror. If of interest drop me a line and/or a 300 word abstract to: baconetti@gmail.com

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

Just been informed by Palgrave that Uncanny Doubles (aka Doppelgänger Gothic) has just been published (though confusingly you can’t buy it until 10th Jan next year?!?), but well done everyone for your terrific work in this! link.springer.com/book/9783031...

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-Alien-Franchise-Colleagues I have gaps in an Aliens Franchise Companion the following: - Aliens comic books - Theological approaches - monsters/hybrids - crossovers (Predator/Blade Runner etc) - creative pieces inspired by the franchise Email me at: baconetti@gmail.com

Aca-Urban-Horror- Colleagues I need a 300 word abstract asap on urban horror in futuristic city/urban spaces in East Asia. Could involve Alice in Borderland, Sweet Home, or even Tokyo Gore Police. Final essay of 5-6K needed end 2026. If interested email me: baconetti@gmail.com

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:

Aca-Alien-Colleagues I’m putting together a Companion on the Alien Franchise and have some gaps on abstracts about Alien Earth (all angles welcome), Romulus, and the crossover/influence with the Predator franchise. If of interest contact me at: baconetti@gmail.com

The next book to be released in the Genre, Fiction and Film Companion series I run at Peter Lang. If you have an idea for one please do get in touch with me.

Laurel Plapp@laurelplapp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Coming soon! www.peterlang.com/document/140... #Atwood #handmaidstale @baconetti.bsky.social

Aca-Christmas-Horror-Colleagues I’ve an emergency for an essay on eco-horror and Christmas involving supernatural or magical creatures, pointing to a pagan/folk horror past. Can’t involve ghosts but can be in any media. If interested drop me a message to: baconetti@gmail.com

I’ve been involved in earlier iterations of these books and they’re absolutely terrific. So if you want to help get the latest one on “Subversive Sci-fi: Evolution” out into the world (and on your book shelf) follow the link to their kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution

More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules

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Final 2 essays for The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie: The Zombie Megatext are now live online (90 in total): - “Zombie Rhetoric” by Kendall Phillips & Connor Knowlan. - “Haitian Origins” by Sarah Juliet Lauro & Lucy Swanson. They can be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie

The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.

link.springer.com

The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie now at 88 (1/2) -Lovecraft & Herbert West by Tony Alcala -Doom by Dawn Stobbart -Phenomenology of the Undead by Patricia Saldarriaga & Emy Manini -Undead Pregnancy by Catherine Pugh & Melody Blackmore All here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie

The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.

link.springer.com

Now at 88 for The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (2/2) 😃 -Italian Zombie Horrors by Matthew Jones -Hong Kong’s Cinema of the Undead by Paul Lewis and Peter True -The Ludo-Narrative Chronotope by Ruikang Wu And they can all be found here: link.springer.com/referencewor...

The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie

The handbook is an encompassing overview of zombies across cultures, histories and mediums. Useful for studies across a broad range of scholarship.

link.springer.com