Introduction, Madeline Potter Chapter 1: Contesting Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Vampire Fiction, Alison Milbank Chapter 2: 'Bless Me Lord, For I am Going to Sin:' Vampire Priests, the Role of Blood, Religion and Gothic Heresy, Jonathan Greenaway Chapter 3: Indian Vampires: Religion, Esotericism, Responses in English and Bengali Literature, Shaona Barik Chapter 4: What We [Actually] Do in the Shadows: Vampires in Orthodox Christianity through the Lens of Kostova's The Historian , David K. Goodin Chapter 5: Japanese Vampires for Christ: Vampire Media as Religious Invasion Narrative in Japan, Justin Mullis Chapter 6: In the Beginning, God Created Lilith: Vampiric Ontology, Gender and Lilith in True Blood and She Never Died , Mary Going Chapter 7: The Inoperative Bite: Aoi Tori , Vampire Narratives, and the Absence of Evil, Leo Chu Chapter 8: "We are on a Mission from God." - Alucard, Theology, Monsters, and Monstrosity in Hellsing Ultimate (2006-2012), Marthe-Siobhán Hecke Chapter 9: Vampire Priests and "Cult Messiahs" in Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, Curtis Runstedler Chapter 10: Bloody Scriptures: The Vampire's Place within the Bible of the Folk Tradition, Kari Sawden Chapter 11: Horizontal Vampirism, Vertical Theology: Juxtaposing Jean Rollin's Lips of Blood with Abel Ferrara's The Addiction , Gavin F. Hurley Chapter 12: Blade and the Spiritual Problem of Evil, Peter Morgan and Terance Espinoza.