The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire

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 17^th century to film and media representations in the 21^st 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.

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.

Simon Bacon is an Independent Scholar based in Poznan, 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.