This Handbook is a unique encompassing overview of the figure of the Zombie. This project will show that while there are many zombies and many texts about zombies it is still often mistakenly viewed as little more than a sub-genre of Horror. However, its history and multiplicity warrants something far more ambitious in terms of cataloguing and defining its many forms, types and possible readings. Consequently, this Handbook proposes to feature elements of all the many and varied representations, narratives, and theories of the zombie, across cultures, histories and mediums to show that it is not just as multifaceted story-world, but is much more akin to a genre in its own right, or what we might term the Zombie Megatext.

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Simon Bacon is an Independent Scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has edited books on various subjects including Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), Monsters: A Companion (2020), Transmedia Vampires (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 (2016), and Dracula as Absolute Other (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Vampires From Another World (2021), and is working on the next Unhallowed Ground: Emergent Terror and the Specter of the Vampire on Screen.

Inhalt

Default Section.- Folklore and the Returning Dead - Europe.- Folklore and the Returning Dead - Asia and Middle East.- Zombies in 19th and Early 20th Century Literature.- Voodoo/Vodou.- Zombies in Hollywood 1930s-50s.- Writing the Zombie Post WWII.- Zombies Across the Globe Post WWII.- Romero and the Rise of the Living Dead.- Zombie Exploitation.- Zombie Ideologies.- Zombies and Sexuality.- Zombie Comics, Manga and Anime.- Gaming and Role Play: Immersion to Extraction.- Zombies are Just Like Us.- Zombies and Modern Life.- 21st Century Zombie Literature.- Zombie Franchises.- Indigenous Identity and Zombies.- The Asian Zombie Revival.- The Anthropocene and Zombie Futures.