Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. Notes on contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. Preface xvii
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero - Polidori and the literary vampire 24
9. 3 Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampires and Ireland’s invited invasion 39
10. 4 ‘He make in the mirror no reflect’ 56
11. 5 The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck’s House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers’s Vampir 79
12. 6 The Undead in the kingdom of shadows 96
13. 7 Crossing oceans of time 113
14. 8 ‘I feel strong. I feel different’ 131
15. 9 Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle 146
16. 10 A vampire heaven 165
17. 11 The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship 181
18. 12 The postmodern vampire in ‘post-race’ America 192
19. 13 Myriad mirrors 210
20. 14 The vampire in the machine 225
21. 15 ‘Legally recognised undead’ 245
22. 16 The elusive vampire 264
23. References 276
24. Index 301