""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Living with the Undead""; ""1. Giving Up the Ghost: Nineteenth-Century Vampires""; ""Byron's Ghost""; ""Polidori and the Phantoms""; ""Varney's Moon""; ""From Christabel to Carmilla: Friends and Lovers""; ""Carmilla's Progress""; ""2. Dracula: A Vampire of Our Own""; ""Dracula's New Order""; ""Jonathan's Master""; ""Jonathan's Progress""; ""Vampire Propriety""; ""Transformations""; ""The Blood Is the Life""; ""3. Our Vampire, Our Leader: Twentieth-Century Undeaths""; ""Vampires and Vampires""; ""Draculas and Draculas""
""The 1970s: Feminist Oligarchies and Kingly Democracy""""4. Grave and Gay: Reagan's Years""; ""Turning Back""; ""Getting Sick ""; ""Queer Shadows ""; ""Near Dark: Vampires Die ""; ""Notes ""; ""Index ""