Taking the interdisciplinary principle to its extreme by refusing to identify theirs, contributors hunt the meaning of vampires from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice. Among their topics are desire, subjectivity, and the threat of the abject in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla; the discourse of the vampire in World War I writing; vampire dogs and marsupial hyenas in light of the Tasmanian tiger's extinction; vampire imagery and the law; and the vampire body and the meaning of mutilation. The volume is part of the research project Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. It is not indexed. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)