Simon Bacon is an Independent Scholar based in Poznan, Poland. His edited collections include Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014), Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children’s Media (2018) both with Katarzyna Bronk, Gothic: A Reader (2018), and Horror: A Companion (2019). He has published two monographs, Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), and Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen (2019), and is currently working on his third, Eco-Vampires: The Vampire as Environmentalist and Undead Eco-activist.