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Winner of the The Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Non-Fiction 2024
This Handbook MRW is a unique encompassing overview of the figure of the vampire. Not only covering the list of usual suspects, this volume provides coverage from the very first reports of vampire-like creatures in the 17th century to film and media representations in the 21st century. The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire shows that what you thought you knew about vampires is only a fraction of the real and fascinating story.
List of contents
Part I: Folklore From Europe and the Americas.- Part II: The Vampire and 19th Century Gothic.- Part III: The Female Vampire in 19th Century Literature.- Part IV: The Vampire on Film to WWII.- Part V: The Vampire on Film Post-WWII.- Part VI: The 20th Century Literary Vampire.- Part VII: Science Fiction Vampires.- Part VIII: European Vampires.- Part IX: Vampires From Asia.- Part X: Vampires of the Americas.- Part XI: Middle East, Africa and Australasia.- Part XII: The Vampire and Identity.- Part XIII: Queer Vampires and Sexploitation.- Part XIV: Female Vampires in the 20th Century and Beyond.- Part XV: Vampires in Children's Media.- Part XVI: Transmedia Vampires.- Part XVII: Living the Vampire: Tourism, Fandom, and Lifestyles.- Part XVIII: Vampires and Being in the World.- Part XIX: Vampire Franchises.- Part XX: The Post Human Vampire.
About the author
Simon Bacon is an Independent Scholar based in Poznań, Poland. He has edited books on various subjects including Gothic: A Reader (Peter Lang 2018), Horror: A Companion (Peter Lang 2019), Monsters: A Companion (Peter Lang 2020), Transmedia Vampires (McFarland 2021), and Nosferatu in the 21st Century (forthcoming). He has also published a series of books on vampires in popular culture: Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (Peter Lang 2016), and Dracula as Absolute Other (McFarland 2019), Eco-Vampires (McFarland 2020), Vampires From Another World (McFarland 2021), and is working on the next Unhallowed Ground: Emergent Terror and the Specter of the Vampire on Screen.
Summary
Winner of the The Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Non-Fiction 2024
This Handbook MRW is a unique encompassing overview of the figure of the vampire. Not only covering the list of usual suspects, this volume provides coverage from the very first reports of vampire-like creatures in the 17th century to film and media representations in the 21st century. The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire shows that what you thought you knew about vampires is only a fraction of the real and fascinating story.
