Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Contributors xvii
Part 1 Vampires
1 Vampires and Female Spiritual Transformation: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Vicky Gilpin 3
2 Crossing the Spiritual Wasteland in Priest Joseph Lay cock 19
3 Vampires Are People, Too: Personalism in the Buffyverse Jarrod Longbons 34
4 The Vampire that Haunts Highgate: Theological Evil, Hammer Horror, and the Highgate Vampire Panic in Britain, 1963-1974 W. Scott Poole 54
Part 2 Zombies
5 The Living Christ and The Walking Dead: Karl Barth and the Theological Zombie Jessica DeCou 79
6 Zombie Walks, Zombie Jesus, and the Eschatology of Postmodern Flesh John W. Morehead 101
7 When All Is Lost, Gather 'Round: Solidarity as Hope Resisting Despair in The Walking Dead Ashley Moyse 124
8 Apocalyptic Images and Prophetic Function in Zombie Films Kim Paffenroth 145
9 Negotiating (Non)Existence: Justifications of Violence in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead J. Ryan Parker 165
Part 3 Other Undead
10 When You're Undead, the Whole World Is Jewish Arnold T. Blumberg 195
11 "Eat of My Body and Drink of My Blood": Johannine Metaphor, Gothic Subculture, and the Undead Beth Stovell 209
12 Fire, Brimstone and PVC: Clive Barker's Cenobites as Agents of Hell Andrea Subissati 227
Bibliography 241
Index 257