Open graves, open minds

Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of HertfordshireBill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield

• 1. Introduction – Sam George and Bill Hughes2. The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero: Polidori and the literary vampire – Conrad Aquilina, 3. Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampires and Ireland’s invited invasion – Julieann Ulin4. ‘He make in the mirror no reflect’: Undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction – Dorian Gray, Dracula, and David Reed’s ‘vampiric painting’ – Sam George5. The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck’s House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers’ Vampir – Lisa Lampert-Weissig6. The Undead in the kingdom of shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire – Stacey Abbott7. Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the ‘new vampire’ film – Lindsey Scott8. ‘I feel strong. I feel different’: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Malgorzata Drewniok9. ‘Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle’ – Catherine Spooner10. A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and Twilight – Jennifer H. Williams11. The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body – Sara Wasson and Sarah Artt12. The postmodern vampire in ‘post-race’ America: HBO’s True Blood – Michelle Smith13. ‘Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries’ – Kimberley McMahon-Coleman14. The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface – Ivan Phillips15. ‘Legally recognised undead’: essence, difference, and assimilation in Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead – Bill Hughes16. The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction – writing My Swordhand is Singing – Marcus SedgwickBibliographyIndex

'...the book is highly recommended as a primary reference work on the media vampire.' Andy Boylan, Taliesin Meets the Vampires blog, 13 March 2015