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.

Simon Bacon is an Independent Scholar based in Poznań, 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.