1st Edition
Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: The Vampire and Disability
Part 1: Disabled vampire embodiment
Chapter 1. Anne Rice’s Liminal Women Vampires—Impairment and Power
Laura Davidel
Chapter 2. The Duality of the Deaf Vampire in Peter Wolf’s Deafula (1975)
Iona McMahon
Chapter 3. Violet Hunt's Vampire, Reversed
Brenda Mann Hammack
Chapter 4. "Render her a tempting morsel": Unholy Appetites and Disordered Bodies in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire
Mary V. Johnson
Chapter 5. Queer Teen/Vamp Love in an Ableist World
Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Part 2: Narrating the disabled vampire
Chapter 6. Nervous Vampirism and Narrative Disability in "The True Story of a Vampire" by Eric Stenbock
Zsolt Bojti
Chapter 7. Russian Literary Vampire: A Lonely Demon or a Disabled Man?
Irina Strout
Chapter 8. The Mechanics of Marginality: Making Vampires from Video Game Players in V Rising
Martine Gjermundsen Ræstad
Chapter 9. Narrating Disability in Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"
Irina Erman
Part 3: Invisible disability, mental health, and the vampire
Chapter 10. "My Own Mind is a Demon that Haunts Me": The Dawn of the Bipolar Vampire
Kimberley McMahon-Coleman
Chapter 11. Vampirism and/as Mental Illness: Martin and The Transfiguration
Jamil Mustafa
Chapter 12. The Autistic Vampire
Hannah Stewart and Brooke Cameron
Chapter 13. Memories that Haunt: Traumatic Histories in Dion Boucicault’s The Vampire (1852)
Lara Karpenko
Chapter 14. Caregiving and the Disabled Female Body in Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “Luella Miller"
Farah Paterson-Cisco
Part 4: Reimagining vampirism
Chapter 15. Bloody Bitch: The Deviant Biofictions of Countess Elizabeth Báthory
Rachel M. Friars and Sarah E. Maier
Chapter 16. "The Vampyre of Time and Memory": Vampirism and Trauma in Tana French’s In the Woods
Rachel Stewart
Chapter 17. "You stole from me! Not just who I was, but who I could’ve been": Intersections of Disability, Time, and Child Vampirism in Midnight Mass (2021) and Interview with a Vampire (1994 and 2022)
Darren Gray
Chapter 18. "It’s like being stuck indoors with the flu watching daytime television, forever and ever": Chronic Illness and Crip Time in Catherine Jinks’s The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Drumlin N.M. Crape
Biography
Drumlin N.M. Crape is a PhD candidate in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Queen’s University, Canada.
Brooke Cameron is Associate Professor of English at Queen’s University, Canada.
