1. Artful Courtship and Murderous Enjoyment: Introduction - David Baker, Stephanie Green, Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska.- 2. Part I: The Dangers of Crossing the Threshold: The Interplay of Power between Host and Guest. 2. Crossing Borders: Hospitality in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire - Maria Parrino.- 3. "Come on in!" Home, Hospitality and the Construction of Power in The Originals - Verena Bernardi.- 4. Fans and Vampires at Home - Lucy I. Baker.- 5. Breaking and Entering: Psychic Violation, Metempsychosis and the Uninvited Female Vampire - Simon Bacon.- 6. Part II - Vampiric Bodies: History, Humanity and Subversion. 6. Time and the Vampire: The Idea of the Past in Carmilla and Dracula - Stephanie Green.- 7. Breach of Consent: Jean Rollin and Le Viol du Vampire - David Baker.- 8. Part III - Those Bloody Kids: Consent, Liminality and the Uncanny in the Figure of Vampire Child. 8. Coming of Age, With Vampires - Amanda Howell.- 9. Consensual and Nonconsensual Sucking: Vampires and Transitional Phenomena - Terrie Waddell.- 10. Part IV - Bloody Romance: Vampires in Intimate Relationships. 10. It's a Love Story-Involving Vampires: The Cinematic Trope of the Wedded Bloodsucker - Samantha Lindop.- 11. The Lower Dog in the Room: Patriarchal Terrorism and the Question of Consent in Charlaine Harris's The Southern Vampire Mysteries - Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska.- 12. Seductive Kindness: Power, Space and "Lesbian" Vampires - Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.