Vampire

Nick Groom is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. He is the author of 20 books, including Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today (2023), The Vampire: A New History (2020), as well as scholarly editions of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, Matthew G. Lewis’s The Monk, Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, for the Oxford World’s Classics series. William Hughes was Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau and is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He is a Past President of the International Gothic Association and the author or editor of more than 20 books including Key Concepts in Victorian Studies (2023), The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth Century Popular Imagination (2022) and Key Concepts in the Gothic (2018).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments IntroductionNick Groom & William HughesPart I. The Vampire: Its Persistence and Change1. Pathology, Physiology, and the Undead: Medicine, Misdiagnosis, and Vampire FictionWilliam Hughes2. The Literary Vampire in the Long Eighteenth CenturyNick Groom3. Victorian and Edwardian Vampires: Environments, Empire, and ExtractivismJoan Passey4. The Paradigm of Dracula: 100 Years of EvolutionCarol A. Senf5. Undead Disclosures: Twentieth-Century Vampire LiteratureSorcha Ní Fhlainn6. Unearthing the Female Vampire Across the CenturiesCarol Margaret DavisonPart II. Vampire Narratologies7. Evil Undead, Shining Immortals: Vampires and ReligionVictoria Nelson8. Ethical Family Planning: Contemporary Queer Literary VampiresArdel Haefele-Thomas9. The Undead in AmericaJillian Wingfield10. The Invention of ‘Asian Vampires’ in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century CultureAndrew Hock Soon Ng11. Dealing with the Dead: Vampires, Corpses, and SerialisationJarlath Killeen12. The Vampire CinemaJeffrey Weinstock13. Vampirism and the Graphic NarrativeRichard J. Hand14. Sur-vampire: Theory, Matter, MetaphorFred BottingNotes on ContributorsIndex

This Companion gathers an impressive cabal of leading Gothic scholars to extend and enrich the project of embedding the enduring figure of the vampire into a range of contexts. From medicine, folklore, anthropology, theology to the specific cultural histories of literature and film, Nick Groom and William Hughes have created a compelling snapshot of the current state of the field. Essential reading.