Death in the 21st Century: A Companion

Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. In her research, she has explored representations of ageing and old age, as well as the notions of memory and nostalgia within literary gerontology. She is the editor of Autumnal Faces (2017) and «Experienc’d Age knows what for Youth is fit»? (2019) and author of «And Yet I Remember» (2019).

Simon Bacon has written and edited over 30 books, including The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen Vols 1 & 2 (2023) and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (2024). He is the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions and Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead with Peter Lang.