Bacon, Simon
Entry updated 7 September 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(? - ) UK author, editor, film critic, conference organizer, liaison manager and translator now resident in Poznań, Poland. His works of nonfiction focus on the monstrous and Gothic with particular emphasis on aspects of the Vampire (especially in Cinema), as witness his early critical studies Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen (2019) and Vampires from Another World: The Cinematic Progeny of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Bram Stoker's Dracula (2021) (see Bram Stoker; H G Wells).
Bacon has edited and co-edited numerous critical anthologies, often dealing with vampires or Zombies – as in Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (anth 2013) with Katarzyna Bronk – but including the Star Trek study To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe (anth 2017) with Nadine Farghaly. For further titles from this remarkably prolific author and editor, see Checklist below. [DRL]
Simon J Bacon
born
works (selected)
- Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2019) [nonfiction: anth: pb/photocollage]
- Vampires from Another World: The Cinematic Progeny of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Bram Stoker's Dracula (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2021) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body As Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Palgrave Pivot series: hb/]
- 100 Draculas on Screen (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania: BearManor Media, 2025) [nonfiction: hb/]
works as editor
- Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (New York: Peter Lang, 2013) with Katarzyna Bronk [nonfiction: anth: hb/Tryfonov/Fotolia]
- To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2017) with Nadine Farghaly [nonfiction: anth: Star Trek: pb/]
- Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children's Media (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2018) with Katarzyna Bronk [nonfiction: anth: Vampires: pb/]
- Horror: A Companion (New York: Peter Lang, 2019) [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's Genre Fiction and Film Companions series: hb/nonpictorial]
- Monsters: A Companion (New York: Peter Lang, 2020) [nonfiction: anth: Horror: in the publisher's Genre Fiction and Film Companions series: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2021) [nonfiction: anth: Vampires: pb/]
- The Anthropocene and the Undead: Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2022) [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's Lexington Books Horror Studies series: hb/]
- Faith and the Zombie: Critical Essays on the End of the World and Beyond (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2023) [nonfiction: anth: Zombies: in the publisher's Contributions to Zombie Studies series: pb/]
- Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) [nonfiction: anth: Women in SF: hb/]
- The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) [nonfiction: Vampires: in the publisher's Springer Nature Reference series: hb/nonpictorial]
- Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) [nonfiction: anth: Zombies: hb/]
- Uncanny Doubles: Doppelgängers, Twins, Clones and the Gothic (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) [nonfiction: anth: Clones; Doppelgangers: in the publisher's Palgrave Gothic series: hb/photocollage]
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