| In My Preface | p. ix |
| p. 1 |
| Histories of Vampirism, Stoker, Rice, Middle Ages, Eighteenth Century | |
| Alcoholics, Dead Bachelors, Heretics, and Suicides, among Other Candidates for Vampiric Comeback | |
| Sexology or Cryptology | |
| Succubus, Incubus | |
| Blood, Andy Warhol Presents Dracula and The Fearless Vampire Killers | |
| Antiquity, Inquisition, Vlad the Impaler, Countess Bathory | |
| p. 15 |
| Eighteenth-Century Vampirism Epidemic in Eastern Europe, Journalistic and Scholarly Responses | |
| The Plague, Discovery of Circulation, Psychoanalysis | |
| Medical Explanations | |
| Death's Makeover in the Eighteenth Century, Live Burial | |
| Projection | |
| Blacula | |
| p. 26 |
| Stoker's Dracula | |
| Circulation | |
| Trips | |
| The Castle inside Him | |
| The Lady's Lost Letters | |
| Technologization and Group Psychologization | |
| Horror of Dracula | |
| "Dracula's Guest" | |
| p. 40 |
| Stoker's Dracula | |
| Totem and Taboo | |
| Incest Is the Law | |
| The Two Women, the Golden Lady, Hair Color Change, the New Woman | |
| Vamp | |
| p. 51 |
| Fourth of July | |
| Mina's Gadget Love | |
| The Telegraph | |
| Cargo Cult | |
| The Cemetery in Whitby | |
| Burial Service | |
| Dracula's Daughter and Nadja | |
| The Recorded Voice versus the Mass of Typewriting | |
| p. 64 |
| Double, Insurance, Substitution | |
| Photography and the Mummy | |
| Cinema, Cannibalism, and Melancholia | |
| Back Home | |
| Mirror Stage | |
| Spider Woman or Phallic Mother | |
| Ewers's "The Spider" | |
| The Tenant | |
| "The Antimacassar" | |
| From Dusk till Dawn | |
| p. 77 |
| Station Identification | |
| "The Horla" | |
| The Force of Invisibility and Posthypnotic Suggestion | |
| "Human Remains" and Face Value | |
| Vampire's Kiss | |
| "Doom of the House of Duryea" | |
| p. 90 |
| The Double Genealogy | |
| The Black Cat and Universal Soldier | |
| Murnau's Nosferatu | |
| Nina's Vampire Bond | |
| Release from Empty Circulation | |
| Herzog's Nosferatu | |
| Not Seeing | |
| p. 99 |
| Bad Smell | |
| The Lair of the White Worm | |
| Opportunistic Diagnosis and "The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady" | |
| p. 111 |
| Postal Pathology | |
| Espionage and Psychological Warfare | |
| Where the Technology Goes When We Go to the Movies | |
| Interview with the Vampire and Bram Stoker's Dracula | |
| p. 118 |
| Browning's Dracula and the Bicoastal Count | |
| Deane and Balderston's Dracula or the Red-Eye Special | |
| Lugosi's and Stoker's Lives and Plan Nine from Outer Space | |
| p. 131 |
| "Dragula" or "TV" | |
| Famous Impostors | |
| Browning, Chaney, Lugosi | |
| Ed Wood Jr.'s Glen or Glenda, Killer in Drag, Death of a Transvestite | |
| The Great-Nephew | |
| p. 147 |
| "For the Blood Is the Life" and the Miscarriage of the Antibody | |
| "Four Wooden Stakes" and the Mother Is a Tramp | |
| "Clarimonde" plus One Is Nun | |
| "Restless Souls" and Killing the Dead | |
| "The Sad Story of a Vampire" and Mama's Boy | |
| "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" and Feedback | |
| p. 160 |
| Le Fanu and "Carmilla" | |
| The Schloss | |
| The Name That Must Not Vary | |
| Supplying the Loss of Mother | |
| The Hunger | |
| Daughters of Darkness | |
| Vampyres | |
| p. 173 |
| Dreyer's Vampyr | |
| "Taboo upon the Dead" | |
| Painting versus Film | |
| "Revelations in Black" and Blue | |
| The Vampire Tapestry | |
| p. 189 |
| Stephen King's Mass | |
| 'Salem's Lot and Danse Macabre | |
| Ghost-busting and Nazi Hunting in Salem's Lot and A Return to Salem's Lot | |
| p. 201 |
| "They Bite" Big Time | |
| "The Vampire" and Death Is a Painter of Portraits | |
| "The Room in the Tower" and "Mrs. Amworth" | |
| The Lost Boys | |
| Peter Pan | |
| The Case of California | |
| The Gulf War | |
| Role Playing | |
| Werther | |
| p. 219 |
| Near Dark | |
| "The Tomb of Sarah" and Father Knows Best | |
| Were-woman | |
| The Wolfman and the Living Dad | |
| I Was a Teenage Were-wolf or Totem Becomes Mascot | |
| The Thing with Vampire Vegetables | |
| "Who Goes There?" | |
| p. 234 |
| Burial Practice, Embalming | |
| Freund's The Mummy | |
| Strobl's "The Tomb of Pere Lachaise" | |
| Schizomummies | |
| The Unwrapping of Mummy Came First | |
| Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars | |
| The Great Experiment, the Unconscious Father, Her Hand in Marriage | |
| Periodicity | |
| p. 249 |
| Polidori's The Vampyre | |
| Archaeology and Autoanalysis | |
| Missing Persons | |
| "Return of the Undead" | |
| Blood of Dracula and Buffy the Vampire Slayer | |
| p. 264 |
| Varney the Vampyre | |
| Group Psychology and the Quotation Marx of Vampirism | |
| Gambling | |
| Rumor | |
| Neighborly Love | |
| Suicide | |
| Vampire Plays by Boucicault and Reece | |
| p. 277 |
| Gothic | |
| Mary Shelley and Frankenstein | |
| William | |
| Golem | |
| Whale's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein | |
| p. 287 |
| The Show of Grief | |
| Public and Secret Identification | |
| The Ghost-writer's Preface | |
| Dilation | |
| Death Wish Fulfillment | |
| William's Murder, Victor's Vampire | |
| The Mother's Portrait | |
| Elizabeth Is the Killer-Substitute | |
| Flashback | |
| The Alma Mater | |
| Elizabeth Must Die | |
| The Missing Grave | |
| The Monster Mourns | |
| Why Victor Can't Make the Mate | |
| In Love with Electricity | |
| Teenage Frankenstein | |
| p. 304 |
| Drag Race of Mourning and the Finish Line of AIDS | |
| Son of Frankenstein | |
| Andy Warhol Presents Frankenstein | |
| Body Parts on the Reassembly Line | |
| Vampire Detectives | |
| Pale Blood and Three Subspecies | |
| Good Citizens or Suicides? | |
| Interview with the Vampire | |
| Lost Love | |
| Nietzsche | |
| Life Sucks | |
| What's God Got to Do with It? | |
| Egotism | |
| Life Is Killing | |
| The Death Cult of Childhood | |
| Locket | |
| Casper and Doyle's Spiritism | |
| p. 326 |
| Revenge | |
| "It Was" | |
| Nihilism | |
| Eternal Return | |
| Third-Person Pronouns | |
| The Law of Pleasure | |
| p. 335 |
| Innocent Blood | |
| The Vampire Lestat | |
| Relocation of Graves | |
| The Theatre des Vampires | |
| Overman | |
| Sacrificial Drive | |
| Maternal Subcultures | |
| Origin of Vampirism | |
| Incest Is the Law | |
| Rock Music | |
| The Queen of the Damned | |
| References | p. 351 |
| Filmography | p. 357 |
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