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Simon Bacon is a writer and independent scholar based in Poznä, Poland. He has written and edited over forty books on various subjects including Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (2023), and Future Folk Horror (2023), and 100 Draculas on Screen (2025). He also runs the book series Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead.

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1: Indigenous (within which "vampiric" indigenous lore plays a significant part in contemporary identity) 1. MALAYSIA - Pontianak: A Vampire-ghost from the Malay World; 2. PHILIPPINES - Vampires, Gender, and Monstrosity in the Philippines: The Aswang in Tim Muñoz's Don Filipo (2021); 3. THAILAND - A Girl Named Krasue: Abjection and Vampirism in Inhuman Kiss*;* 4. INDIA - Visualizing the Grotesque: An Investigation of Abject Selves of the Rakta Pisacha in Parimal Bhattacharya's Nishi Trishna*;* 5. INDIGENOUS AMERICAN -"Feral" Females, Werewolf Wives: Indigenous Femininity in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga*;* 6. JAPAN - Living in a Cursed World: Studio Ghibli's Cosmic Metabolism Part 2: Self Identity (within which vampires are signifiers of contemporary identity positions) 7. ITALY - To Each Country Its Own Vampires: Amando de Ossorio's Horror-Thriller Hybrid Malenka (1969); 8. BRAZIL - Sex and Blood in the Tropical Heat: As Sete Vampiras [The Seven Vampires] and Ivan Cardoso's "Terrir"; 9. BELGIUM -The Belgian Vampire In Context: Vampires as a Dark Reflection of Belgian Society; 10. HUNGARY - Embodying an Undead Nation: The Political Vampire in Hungarian Fantastic Narratives*;* 11. ISRAEL - Blood, Myth, and Identity: A Comparative Study of the Jewish-Israeli Vampire and the Western Vampire Tradition*;* 12. TÜRKIYE -Bloodlines and Borders: Cultural Translation in Turkish Vampire Cinema Part 3: Postcolonialism (within which vampires embody negotiations between contemporary identity positions with a colonial past) 13. RUSSIA - Guardians of the Night, or the Russian Mental Mapping of the World; 14. AUSTRIA-Vampire as Imperial Construct: Therapy for a Vampire and Austrian Heritage*;* 15. FRANCE - Postcolonial Fantasies of Violence: Bleeding Out the Other in France (1896-1973); 16. SOUTH AFRICA - The Apartheid Undead: Kenneth Kaplan's Pure Blood; 17. IRAN - Iranian Vampires: Iranian Vampires: Derakula Walks Home Alone Under the Shadow of Orientalism*;* 18. AFRICAN AMERICAN & IRELAND - "I am your way out"; Index