Chapter 1 Introduction: Artful Courtship and Murderous Enjoyment

Chapter 2 Crossing Borders: Hospitality in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire

Chapter 3 “Come on in!” Home, Hospitality and the Construction of Power in The Originals

Chapter 4 Fans and Vampires at Home

Chapter 5 Breaking and Entering: Psychic Violation, Metempsychosis and the Uninvited Female Vampire

Chapter 6 Time and the Vampire: The Idea of the Past in Carmilla and Dracula

Chapter 8 Coming of Age, with Vampires

Chapter 9 Consensual and Non-Consensual Sucking: Vampires and Transitional Phenomena

Chapter 10 It’s a Love Story—Involving Vampires: The Cinematic Trope of the Wedded Bloodsucker

Chapter 11 The Lower Dog in the Room: Patriarchal Terrorism and the Question of Consent in Charlaine Harris’s The Southern Vampire Mysteries

Chapter 12 Seductive Kindness: Power, Space and “Lesbian” Vampires