Simon BaconSimon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He is the coeditor, with Katarzyna Bronk, of Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014) and Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Chilren’s Media (2018), and the editor of Gothic: A Reader (2018) and Horror: A Companion (2019). He has published three monographs, Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker’s Vampire on Screen (2019), Eco Vampires: The Vampire as Environmentalist and Undead Eco-Activist (2021). Read More Read Less