Introduction
Simon Bacon
Part I: Undead Identity in the Anthropocene
Chapter 1: (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives
Kyle William Bishop
Chapter 2: Undeath, Theatricality, and the EcoGothic in DC Moore’s Common (2017)
Gheorghe Williams
Chapter 3: Maggie in the Necrocene
Johan Höglund
Part II: Undead Spaces and “Zones” of the Anthropocene
Chapter 4: The Uncanny Valley of the Anthropocene: Short Stories About the Undead Under the Brightest of Lights
Nils Bubandt
Chapter 5: Mutants and Tourists: Horror Film, Sacrifice Zones, and Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Steffen Hantke
Chapter 6: A Panic on the 4th of July: Municipal Malfeasance, Mutation and Monstrosity in Barry Levinson’s The Bay (2012)
Rebecca Stone Gordon
Part III: The Anthropocene and the End of “Time”
Chapter 7: “Dying All the Time”: The Future as the Extended Present and the Zombification of History in the Anthropocene
Elana Gomel
Chapter 8: Avenging the Anthropocene: Returning the Dead to Life while Destroying the Planet in The Avengers Films
Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
Chapter 9: “To Remember Forever to Forget”: Into Eternity and the Anti-Anthropocene
Kristopher Woofter and Mikaela Bobiy
Part IV: The Disantnropocene: Is Not All About Us
Chapter 10: “You’re Next!”: The Enemy Within and the End of the Anthropocene as Seen in Adaptions Of “Who Goes There?” And The Body Snatchers
Andrew Wilson
Chapter 11: Non-Consensual Eco-sex: A Guided Meditation to the Permeable Membrane
Sarah Lewison
Chapter 12: Back from the Dead: Tailings Ponds in the Albertan Oil Sands Mining Operations
Aaron Bradshaw
Part V: The Post-Anthropocene, the Symbiocene and Undead Futures
Chapter 13: Post-Anthropocenic Undying Futures: The Ecocritical Dystopian Posthuman in Lai’s The Tiger Flu and Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag”
Conrad Scott
Chapter 14: “Cause tonight is the night/When two become one”: Stranger Things, Parasitism, Assimilation and the Abject
Daisy Butcher
Chapter 15: After the End: The Postanthropocene Future of Endzeit
Lars Schmeink