True Blood Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Before the Night is through: True Blood as Cult TV; PART I -- The True Face of Vampires: Genre and Style; TV Love Fangs: The Television of HBO Horror; More than Cold and Heartless: The Southern Gothic Milieu of True Blood; PART II -- There's a bigger picture: Myths and Meanings; 'I'm a Fairy? How Fucking Lame!': True Blood as Fairy Tale; Drink in Remembrance of Me: Blood, Bodies and Divine Absence in True Blood; Minoritarian Romantic Fables in HBO's True Blood; PART III -- A Button You Can Push on People: Characters and Identities.