Mythologies of American violence in Alan Ball's True Blood series by Anne-Marie PAQUET-DEYRIS

“…To capture their extreme violence, the showrunner uses the conventions of the horror genre. Vampire, werewolf movie codes and motifs are very often recycled in various episodes of the series to problematize current problems in American society such as the women’s liberation movement, the gay and lesbian rights, the civil rights movement etc. …”
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His Master’s Voice: Sound Devices in Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Maria Parrino

“…From Renfield’s calling in of the vampire (a master who needs a servant to be welcomed in), to Dracula’s attempt at mastering oral English in order to conceal his foreignness, the novel proves to be an important example of how literature deals with sound devices.…”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…She and her novels are in fact the inventions of Reynolds and his regular employee James Malcolm Rymer (1814–84), who in the 1840s created ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Varney, the Vampire’ for the penny blood publisher Edward Lloyd. …”
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Young Adult Pop Fiction: Empathy and the Twilight Series by Alicia Otano Unzue

“…The message behind this pop fiction phenomenon is as ancient as its legendary vampire and shape-shifter characters yet its massive book sales warrant analysis of the author’s role in manipulating reader affect to successfully transmit her vision of attaining happiness. …”
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Dead Collections by Mary Snyder Broussard

“…While Sol and his vampirism are clearly works of fiction, the novel accurately depicts working in libraries with a chronic illness. …”
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Dracula : mécanique des fluides et roman des angoisses circulatoires by Maël Baussand

“…The vampiric monster in Stoker’s Dracula epitomizes a threat coming from the margins, which happens to be related to the body. …”
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Reflections on Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Architecture by David Macarthur

“…Two recent collections on architectural theory and practice invoke the name of pragmatism as marking the hope of a new more intimate alignment of theory and practice after a period of what I call ‘philosophical vampirism’.  This paper examines what role the philosophical tradition of pragmatism might play in relation to architecture. …”
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Dracula Gramophone by Marc Porée

“…Jonathan Harker) and intoning, while taking into account the means, both technological (gramophone) and supernatural (vampiric “sound bites”), whereby “negative audition” (achieved via hypnosis) and Verstimmung are enacted in the writing itself. …”
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The returning dead: unconventional inhumations in Medieval Lithuania by Gintautas Vėlius

“…In Christian societies such posthumous decollations correlated with fight against vampires or with persons which caused pestilences. …”
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