Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. List of Illustrations IX
4. Acknowledgements XII
5. Foreword XIV
6. A Note on the Etymology of the Word Vampire XVII
7. INTRODUCTION: CREATING THINKING WITH VAMPIRES 1
8. PART I. CIRCULATING THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
9. 1. Unearthing the Dead: Medicine and Detection, Body and Mind 23
10. 2. The Lands of Blood: Place and Race, Territory and Travel 41
11. 3. Ghostly Theology: Rational Religion, Spiritual Reason 56
12. 4. The Covenant of the Undead: Catholicism and Enlightenment, Sanctity and Danger 73
13. PART II. COAGULATING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
14. 5. The Cultures of Death: Gothic Romanticism, Deathly Words 97
15. 6. Mortal Pathologies: Being Bestial, Living Lies 118
16. 7. Bleeding Gold: Gothic Capitalism and Undead Consumerism 147
17. 8. The Count, Dracula: Smoke and Mirrors – Pen, Paint and Blood 169
18. CONCLUSION: CRAWLING AND CREEPING LIVING WITH VAMPIRES 193
19. Endnotes 207
20. Bibliography 248
21. Index 273