This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about hospitality, rape and consent. The first section welcomes the reader into ominous spaces of home, examining the vampire through concepts of hospitality and power, the metaphor of threshold, and the blurred boundaries between visitation, invasion and confinement. Section two reflects upon the historical development of vampire narratives and the monster as oppressed, alienated Other. Section three discusses cultural anxieties of youth, (im)maturity, childhood agency, abuse and the age of consent. The final section addresses vampire as intimate partner, mapping boundaries between invitation, passion and coercion. With its fresh insight into vampire genre, this bookwill appeal to academics, students and general public alike.

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Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: Artful Courtship and Murderous Enjoyment
Part I The Dangers of Crossing the Threshold: The Interplay of Power Between Host and Guest
Part I The Dangers of Crossing the Threshold: The Interplay of Power Between Host and Guest
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
Part II Vampiric Bodies: History, Humanity and Subversion
Part II Vampiric Bodies: History, Humanity and Subversion
Chapter 6 Time and the Vampire: The Idea of the Past in Carmilla and Dracula
Chapter 7 Breach of Consent: Jean Rollin and Le Viol du Vampire
Part III Those Bloody Kids: Consent, Liminality and the Uncanny in the Figure of Vampire Child
Chapter 8 Coming of Age, with Vampires
Chapter 9 Consensual and Non-Consensual Sucking: Vampires and Transitional Phenomena
Part IV Bloody Romance: Vampires in Intimate Relationships
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
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