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"Draugula": The Draugr in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Literature and His Relationship to the Post-Medieval Vampire Myth / Matthias Teichert -- Dracula Anticipated: The "Undead" in Anglo-Irish Literature / Paul E. H. Davis -- Retracing the Shambling Steps of the Undead: The Blended Folkloric Elements of Vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Alexis M. Milmine -- Dracula's Kitchen: A Glossary of Transylvanian Cuisine, Language, and Ethnography / Cristina Artenie -- Biomedical Origins of Vampirism / Edward O. Keith -- Evidence for the Undead: The Role of Medical Investigation in the 18th-Century Vampire Epidemic / Leo Ruickbie -- Undead Feedback: Adaptations and Echoes of Johann Fluckinger's Report, Visum et Repertum (1732), until the Millennium / Clemens Ruthner -- Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight / Nancy Schumann -- Vampiresse: Embodiment of Sensuality and Erotic Horror in Carl Th. Dreyer's Vampyr and Mario Bava's The Mask of Satan / Angela Tumini -- The Vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican Lore / James E. Doan -- Vampiric Viragoes: Villainizing and Sexualizing Arthurian Women in Dracula vs. King Arthur (2005) / Katherine Allocco -- "If I Wasn't a Girl, Would You Like Me Anyway?" Le Fanu's Carmilla and Alfredson's Let the Right One In / Jamieson Ridenhour -- A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan's Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires / Masaya Shimokusu -- From Russia with Blood: Imagining the Vampire in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture / Tomas Jesus Garza -- Dracula Comes to Mexico: Carlos Fuentes's Vlad, Echoes of Origins, and the Return of Colonialism / Adriana Gordillo -- Sublime Horror: Transparency, Melodrama, and the Mise-en-Scene of Two Mexican Vampire Films / Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez, Claudia Schaefer. |
