I. POINTS OF ENTRY. 1. Spadework. Rising from Obscurity. Poison Pen Pals. Stage Frights. True to Life. 2. Come-Back Kids. Dead but Undaunted. Pick Your Poison. Monster Mash. 3. Blood Types. Bloody Study. Bad Spirits. Meet the Monsters. Vampires Are Us. 4. Deep Feelings at Stake. Pangs and Fangs. Fatal Attractions. Playing with Matches. Lonely Hearts in Circulation. 5. Vamp Camp. Getting to Know You. Pale Imitations. Horrible Horror. I Must Have You! II. GORY LOVE. 6. Earthy Types. What's in a Name? Scattered Remains. Turn for the Worse. Tale from the Crypt. 7. Long in the Tooth. Old Bats. Indian Bloodlines. Vampires Going Greek. When in Rome. Iran from Vampires. 8. Suckers from All Over. Eastern Beasts. Black Magic. South of the Border. Vampire Empire. Entertaining Terrors. 9. Blood Relations and Kindred Spirits. Menaces of Distinction. Charming Companions. Putting on the Dog. Scavenger Hunt. Bad Spirits. 10. Mania in Transylvania. Unfinished Business. Temporary Burial. Tell Me Another. Dead Reckoning. 11. Bad Old Vlad. Fact and Fiction. Dragon's Brood. A Prince of a Fiend. Local Hero. Bloodbath Beth. III. OUT OF THE COFFIN. 12. The Drain Game. On a Role. A World Apart. Blood Feud. Spinning Out of Control. 13. Honest to Goth. What's the Word. ...What Music They Make. Spreading Darkness. Killer Fashion. Occult Cults of Counterculture. 14. Night Life. Bat's Eye View. Mythic Beings. Teeth of the Movement. Flocking Together. 15. Cutting Edge. Tapping the Source. Blood Is Thicker. Cases in Point. Looking Sharp. 16. Blood Clinic. Blood Rushes to the Head. Psyched Out. Bloody Archives. Bloody Murder. Copy Cat Bats. Playing Rough. Hit List. 17. Inner Vamps, Inner Victims. Demon Scheme. Blood Test. PBAS, PBAR, PBIS, and PBIR. PShAS, PShAR, PShIS, and PshIR. VBAS, VBAR, VBIS, and VBIR. VShAS, VShAR, VShIS, and VshIR. IV. NOVEL IDEAS. 18. Written in Blood. What Are We, Barbarians? A Place in the Dark. Nice Meets Vice. The Romance Is Back. 19. Romantic and Victorian Vampires. Drawing First Blood. Road to Ruin. Toujour L'amour. Serial Killer. Girls' Night Out. 20. The Count. A Cut Above the Rest. Choosing Sides. Lit Crit Gets Bit. 21. Bloody Pulp. Worth the Paper They're Printed On. Too Much Is Never Enough. Comic Relief. Comics Revamped. 22. Grave Plots and Toothsome Tales. The Science of Sucking. Hard-Boiled Horror. Pages Turned. Cape-Sweeping Sagas. Scare Packages. 23. Cooking with Rice. Dark Times. Venal Vampire. Made to Be Broken. Their Human Side. V. CREATURE FEATURES. 24. Undying Classics. Silent but Deadly. I Am Dlacoolah! Monster Mill. Making His Mark. 25. Bloodsucking Cinema. Forging a Dynasty. Reels on a Roll. Young Blood. It Takes All Kinds. Die Laughing. 26. That Pale Glow. There Goes the Neighborhood. Afternoon Darkness. Bloodsucker in Blue. Gruesome Guests. 27. Buffy Stuff. Back to the Drawing Board. Love, Laughter, and Monstrous Evil. What in the World. Slayer Style. Appendix A. Underground Directory. Appendix B. A Gloss on Death. Appendix C. Blood Imbibliography. Index.
