The Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion

The twenty-first century is truly the age of the undead. This collection of 30 original essays explains how the fears and anxieties we have around contagion, the environment, geopolitics, ageing and more have given rise to the undead that plague our existence but also offer visions of our future.

Simon Bacon is an award-winning writer and film critic based in Poznań, Poland. He is the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions with Peter Lang, to which he has also contributed The Gothic (2018), Horror (2019), Monsters (2020) and Transmedia Cultures (2021). He is also the editor of Transmedia Vampires (2021), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2022) and The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022). He has published a series of monographs on vampires in popular culture: BecomingVampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), and Dracula as AbsoluteOther (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Vampires From Another World (2021) and 1000 Vampires on Screen (forthcoming).