Unearthing the dead: medicine and detection, body and mind
The lands of blood: place and race, territory and travel
Ghostly theology: rational religion, spiritual reason
The covenant of the undead: Catholicism and enlightenment, sanctity and danger
The cultures of death: Gothic romanticism, deathly words
Mortal pathologies: being bestial, living lies
Bleeding gold: Gothic capitalism and undead consumerism
The Count, Dracula: smoke and mirrors
Introduction. Creating: thinking with vampires
Part I: Circulating: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Part II: Coagulating: the nineteenth century to the present
Conclusion. Crawling and creeping: living with vampires.
