Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture

Foreword: Vampires-The Ancient Fear -Brian Aldiss Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Shape of Vampires -Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger 2. My Vampire, My Friend: The Intimacy Dracula Destroyed -Nina Auerbach 3. Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door -Jules Zanger 4. The Vampire as Alien in Contemporary Fiction -Margaret L. Carter 5. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: The Vampire in Search of Its Mother -Joan Gordon 6. Meditations in Red: On Writing The Vampire Tapestry -Suzy McKee Charnas 7. Sang for Supper: Notes on the Metaphorical Use of Vampires in The Empire of Fear and Young Blood -Brian Stableford 8. Recasting the Mythology: Writing Vampire Fiction -Jewelle Gomez 9. Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire -Sandra Tomc 10. When Hollywood Sucks, or, Hungry Girls, Lost Boys, and Vampirism in the Age of Reagan -Nicola Nixon 11. Consuming Youth: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld -Rob Latham 12. The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins -Miriam Jones 13. Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction -Trevor Holmes 14. Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo's The Death's-Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the Vampire -Mari Kotani 15. Fantasies of Absence: The Postmodern Vampire -Veronica Hollinger Notes Works Cited Films Cited Index List of Contributors