Simon BaconSimon Bacon is the editor of Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), Monsters: A Companion (2020), Transmedia Vampires (2021), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (forthcoming), and co-editor of Growing Up with Vampires (2019 with Ktarzyna Bronk) and Spoofing the Vampire (forthcoming, with Ashley Szanter). He has also published a series of scholarly books on vampires in popular culture: Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), Dracula as Absolute Other (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020) and Vampires From Another World (2021). Read More Read Less