Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSimon BaconPart I: Comedy and the VampireWhat We Do in Twilight Shadows: Comedy in the Vampire Genre as Both a Celebration and a WeaponAndrew M. BoylanThe Comedy of Terrors: A Humor Theory Analysis of Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and LovingMatthew McKeagueDracula in New York: The Comic, Anachronistic Vampire in Love at First Bite and VampsMurray LeederLess Blacula and More Buffy: The ­Self-Aware Mythology of Vampire in BrooklynValerie Estelle FrankelPart II: Spoofing Across MediaCare for a Bite? Vampire-Inspired CookbooksVictoria AmadorDefanging Nosferatu: Case Studies of the Neutering of Bloodsuckers, Vampires and the Undead Across Children’s Media (1950s–1980s)Robert MclaughlinBetween Sentimentality, Sentience and Sense Making: The Visual Markers of the Vampire in Online CaricaturesPhil FitzsimmonsPart III: Spoofing and Gender“Meet the Camp Vamp”: Exploring Genre, the Vampire as a Comedic Figure and Abbott and Costello Meet FrankensteinBlair Speakman and Carmel CedroRefusing Life in the Shadows: The Anti-Patriarchal Bite of What We Do in the ShadowsNatalie WilsonMocking Masculinity: Comedy and Subversion in ­Women-Directed Vampire FilmsAlexandra Heller-Nicholas and Donna McRaeFuckable Bodies: Male Virginity in Vamp, My Best Friend Is a Vampire and Once BittenFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart IV: Seriously SpoofingVampires Clashing with the 21st Century: Analyzing Postmodern Irony in What We Do in the ShadowsZita HüsingSpoofing the Byronic, Changing the Vampire: Locating the Byronic Hero in What We Do in the Shadows (2014– )Debaditya MukhopadhyayA Spike for an Angel: How the Comic Bites into the DramaticIldikó Limpár“This is the bloody ­twenty-first century!” The (Post)Modern Vampires of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left AliveM. Keith Booker and Isra DaraisehAbout the ContributorsIndex

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSimon BaconPart I: Comedy and the VampireWhat We Do in Twilight Shadows: Comedy in the Vampire Genre as Both a Celebration and a WeaponAndrew M. BoylanThe Comedy of Terrors: A Humor Theory Analysis of Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and LovingMatthew McKeagueDracula in New York: The Comic, Anachronistic Vampire in Love at First Bite and VampsMurray LeederLess Blacula and More Buffy: The ­Self-Aware Mythology of Vampire in BrooklynValerie Estelle FrankelPart II: Spoofing Across MediaCare for a Bite? Vampire-Inspired CookbooksVictoria AmadorDefanging Nosferatu: Case Studies of the Neutering of Bloodsuckers, Vampires and the Undead Across Children’s Media (1950s–1980s)Robert MclaughlinBetween Sentimentality, Sentience and Sense Making: The Visual Markers of the Vampire in Online CaricaturesPhil FitzsimmonsPart III: Spoofing and Gender“Meet the Camp Vamp”: Exploring Genre, the Vampire as a Comedic Figure and Abbott and Costello Meet FrankensteinBlair Speakman and Carmel CedroRefusing Life in the Shadows: The Anti-Patriarchal Bite of What We Do in the ShadowsNatalie WilsonMocking Masculinity: Comedy and Subversion in ­Women-Directed Vampire FilmsAlexandra Heller-Nicholas and Donna McRaeFuckable Bodies: Male Virginity in Vamp, My Best Friend Is a Vampire and Once BittenFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart IV: Seriously SpoofingVampires Clashing with the 21st Century: Analyzing Postmodern Irony in What We Do in the ShadowsZita HüsingSpoofing the Byronic, Changing the Vampire: Locating the Byronic Hero in What We Do in the Shadows (2014– )Debaditya MukhopadhyayA Spike for an Angel: How the Comic Bites into the DramaticIldikó Limpár“This is the bloody ­twenty-first century!” The (Post)Modern Vampires of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left AliveM. Keith Booker and Isra DaraisehAbout the ContributorsIndex

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSimon BaconPart I: Comedy and the VampireWhat We Do in Twilight Shadows: Comedy in the Vampire Genre as Both a Celebration and a WeaponAndrew M. BoylanThe Comedy of Terrors: A Humor Theory Analysis of Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and LovingMatthew McKeagueDracula in New York: The Comic, Anachronistic Vampire in Love at First Bite and VampsMurray LeederLess Blacula and More Buffy: The ­Self-Aware Mythology of Vampire in BrooklynValerie Estelle FrankelPart II: Spoofing Across MediaCare for a Bite? Vampire-Inspired CookbooksVictoria AmadorDefanging Nosferatu: Case Studies of the Neutering of Bloodsuckers, Vampires and the Undead Across Children’s Media (1950s–1980s)Robert MclaughlinBetween Sentimentality, Sentience and Sense Making: The Visual Markers of the Vampire in Online CaricaturesPhil FitzsimmonsPart III: Spoofing and Gender“Meet the Camp Vamp”: Exploring Genre, the Vampire as a Comedic Figure and Abbott and Costello Meet FrankensteinBlair Speakman and Carmel CedroRefusing Life in the Shadows: The Anti-Patriarchal Bite of What We Do in the ShadowsNatalie WilsonMocking Masculinity: Comedy and Subversion in ­Women-Directed Vampire FilmsAlexandra Heller-Nicholas and Donna McRaeFuckable Bodies: Male Virginity in Vamp, My Best Friend Is a Vampire and Once BittenFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart IV: Seriously SpoofingVampires Clashing with the 21st Century: Analyzing Postmodern Irony in What We Do in the ShadowsZita HüsingSpoofing the Byronic, Changing the Vampire: Locating the Byronic Hero in What We Do in the Shadows (2014– )Debaditya MukhopadhyayA Spike for an Angel: How the Comic Bites into the DramaticIldikó Limpár“This is the bloody ­twenty-first century!” The (Post)Modern Vampires of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left AliveM. Keith Booker and Isra DaraisehAbout the ContributorsIndex