Contents

IN MY PREFACE • ix
LECTURE ONE • 1
Histories of Vampirism, Stoker, Rice, Middle Ages, Eighteenth Cen-
tury—Alcoholics, Dead Bachelors, Heretics, and Suicides, among
Other Candidates for Vampiric Comeback—Sexology or Cryptol-
ogy—Succubus, Incubus — Blood, Andy Warhol Presents Dracula
and The Fearless Vampire Killers—Antiquity, Inquisition, Vlad the
Impaler, Countess Bathory
LECTURE TWO • 15
Eighteenth-Century Vampirism Epidemic in Eastern Europe, Jour-
nalistic and Scholarly Responses—The Plague, Discovery of Cir-
culation, Psychoanalysis — Medical Explanations—Death's Make-
over in the Eighteenth Century, Live Burial — Projection — Blacula
LECTURE THREE • 26
Stoker's Dracula—Circulation—Trips—The Castle inside Him—
The Lady's Lost Letters—Technologization and Group Psycholo-
gization — Horror of Dracula—"Dracula's Guest"
LECTURE FOUR • 40
Stoker's Dracula— Totem and Taboo—Incest Is the Law—The Two
Women, the Golden Lady, Hair Color Change, the New Woman—
Vamp
LECTURE FIVE • 51
Fourth of July—Mina's Gadget Love — The Telegraph — Cargo
Cult—The Cemetery in Whitby—Burial Service—Dracula's Daugh-
ter and Nadja—The Recorded Voice versus the Mass of Typewriting
LECTURE SIX • 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
LECTURE SEVEN • 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"
LECTURE EIGHT • 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
LECTURE NINE • 99
Bad Smell— The Lair of the White Worm — Opportunistic Diagno-
sis and "The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady"
LECTURE TEN -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
LECTURE ELEVEN • 118
Browning's Dracula and the Bicoastal Count — Deane and Balder-
ston's Dracula or the Red-Eye Special — Lugosi's and Stoker's Lives
and Plan Nine from Outer Space
LECTURE TWELVE • 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
LECTURE THIRTEEN • 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
LECTURE FOURTEEN • 160
Le Fanu and "Carmilla" —The Schloss —The Name That Must Not
Vary—Supplying the Loss of Mother—The Hunger—Daughters
of Darkness— Vampyres
LECTURE FIFTEEN • 173
Dreyer's Vampyr—"Taboo upon the Dead" — Painting versus
Film — "Revelations in Black" and Blue — The Vampire Tapestry
LECTURE SIXTEEN • 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
LECTURE SEVENTEEN • 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
LECTURE EIGHTEEN • 219
Near Dark—"The Tomb of Sarah" and Father Knows Best—Were-
woman — The Wolfman and the Living Dad — / Was a Teenage Were-
wolf or Totem Becomes Mascot— The Thing with Vampire Vegeta-
bles— "Who Goes There?"
LECTURE NINETEEN • 234
Burial Practice, Embalming — Freund's The Mummy—Strobl's
"The Tomb of Pere Lachaise" — Schizomummies—The Unwrap-
ping of Mummy Came First—Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars—
The Great Experiment, the Unconscious Father, Her Hand in Mar-
riage — Periodicity
LECTURE TWENTY • 249
Polidori's The Vampyre—Archaeology and Autoanalysis — Miss-
ing Persons — "Return of the Undead" — Blood ofDracula and Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
LECTURE TWENTY-ONE • 264
Varney the Vampyre—Group Psychology and the Quotation Marx of
Vampirism — Gambling— Rumor — Neighborly Love—Suicide—
Vampire Plays by Boucicault and Reece
LECTURE TWENTY-TWO • 277
Gothic—Mary Shelley and Frankenstein — William — Golem —
Whale's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein
LECTURE TWENTY-THREE • 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
LECTURE TWENTY-FOUR • 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 Vam-
pire— Lost Love — Nietzsche — Life Sucks — What's God Got to Do
with It? —Egotism —Life Is Killing —The Death Cult of Child-
hood— Locket—Casper and Doyle's Spiritism
LECTURE TWENTY-FIVE • 326
Revenge — "It Was" — Nihilism — Eternal Return — Third-Person
Pronouns — The Law of Pleasure
LECTURE TWENTY-SIX • 335
Innocent Blood—The Vampire Lestat—Relocation of Graves —
The Theatre des Vampires — Overman — Sacrificial Drive — Ma-
ternal Subcultures — Origin of Vampirism — Incest Is the Law—
Rock Music— The Queen of the Damned

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