In this volume, contributors-literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture-examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from here.

Rob Allen is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Thijs van den Berg is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Foreword Christoph Lindner Introduction Rob Allen and Thijs van den Berg Part I: Victorian Serials 1. The Unruliness of Serials in the Nineteenth Century (and in the Digital Age) Mark Turner 2. "Pause you who read this": Disruption and the Victorian Serial Novel Rob Allen 3. "Split [...] peas": Mrs Beeton and Domestic Time, Decomposed Maria Damkjaer Part II: Serialization on Screen 4. The Logic of the Line Segment: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Serial-Queen Melodrama Shane Denson 5. "Is it true blondes have more fun?": Mad Men and the Mechanics of Serialization Joyce Goggin 6. The Walking Dead: Quality Television, Transmedia Serialization, and Zombies Dan Hassler-Forest 7. Ingmar Bergman, Showrunner Sean O'Sullivan Part III: Serialization in Comic Books and Graphic Novels 8. Serialization and Displacement in Graphic Narrative Jason Dittmer 9. The Issues Issue: A Series of Thoughts on Seriality in Daniel Clowes' Eightball Angela Szczepaniak Part IV: Digital Serialization 10. The Sense of an Ending: The Computer Game Fallout 3 as a Serial Fiction Alistair Brown 11. Circling the Infinite Loop, One Edit at a Time: Seriality in Wikipedia and the Encyclopedic Urge Erinç Salor 12. The Serialization Game: Computer Hardware and the Serial Production of Video Games Thijs van den Berg