Introduction Part I: Legend of the Vampire: Elizabeth MILLER: Getting to know the Undead: Bram Stoker, Vampires and Dracula Hyun-Jung LEE: "One for Ever": Desire, Subjectivity and the Threat of the Abject in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla Lois DRAWMER: Sex, Death and Ecstacy: The Art of Transgression Peter Mario KREUTER: The Name of the Vampire. Some reflections on current linguistic theories on the etymology of the word vampire Terry PHILLIPS: The Discourse of the Vampire in First World War Writing Darren OLDRIDGE: "Dead Man Walking": The Historical Context of Vampire Beliefs Phil BAGUST: Vampire Dogs and Marsupial Hyenas: Fear, Myth and the Tasmanian Tiger's Extinction Part II: Vampires for the Modern Mind: Meg BARKER: Vampire Subcultures Stacey ABBOTT: Embracing the Metropolis: Urban Vampires in American Cinema of the 1980s and 90s Sharon SUTHERLAND: Piercing the Corporate Veil - With a Stake? Vampire Imagery and the Law James TOBIAS: Vampires and the Cyborg Embrace: Affect Beyond Fantasy in Virtual Materialism Fiona PETERS: Looking in the Mirror: Vampires, the Symbolic and the Thing Elizabeth MCCARTHY: 'Death to Vampires!: The Vampire Body and the Meaning of Mutilation Nursel ICOZ: The Undead: To be Feared or/and Pitied Pete REMINGTON: "You're Whining Again Louis": Anne Rice's Vampires as Indices of the Depressive Self