Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-350) and index.
The modern vampire: Every age has the vampire it needs, an introduction / Kirstine Moffat and Gareth Schott ; Ambivalence about immortality, vampires reveal and assuage existential anxiety / Johathan F. Bassett -- Fans and anti-fans: Pa/trolling the borders of the Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency website, realism, gender, authenticity / Joan Ormrod ; Buffy vs. Bella: The Re-emergence of the archetypal feminine in vampire stories / Jennifer Jenson Anita Sarkeesian ; As close to worthless as it can get, 'Twilight' anti-fans, teenage girls and symbolic violence / Catherine Strong ; Vampires, queers, and other monsters, against the homonomativity of 'True Blood' / Susana Loza ; True blood truebies, 'True Blood' fans and comic book covers / David Huxley -- Place and identity: Knit one, bite one, vampire fandom, fan production and femininee handicrafts / Brigid Cherry ; Gorgeous monsters and awful beauties, the vampire in the world of alternative fashion and photography / Rick Hudson ; Mystic Falls meets the World Wide Web, where is 'The vampire diaries' located? / Kimberley McMahon-Coleman ; Escape to ambiguity, the 'Twilight' fan's playground / Katie Hoskinson -- Fan fiction: Anyone for a vampwich? 'True blood,' online identity and copyright / Melissa de Zwart ; Willing freshies, blood, sex and vampires in 'Moonlight' fan fiction / Candace Benefiel ; The recuperated bite and issues of the soul in vampire fan fiction / Maria Lindgren Leavenworth Malin Isaksson -- Authors and critics as fans: Postmortem matchmaking, Jane Austen, vampire bride / Amy Elizabeth Smith ; I demand an undying devotion to the play, 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are undead' / Fiona Martin ; The critic as vampire, parasitic relations in media studies and popular culture / Roy Parkhurst