Dracula: An International Perspective

1. "Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will": Dracula in international contexts - Marius-Mircea Crisan.- 2. The Casework Relationship: Le Fanu, Stoker and the Rhetorical Contexts of Irish Gothic - William Hughes.- 3. The Discourse of Italy in Nineteenth Century Irish Gothic: Maturin's Fatal Revenge, Le Fanu's exotic tales, and The Castle of Savina - Donatella Abbate Badin.- 4. "Bloodthirsty and Remorseless Fangs": Representation of East-Central Europe in Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short stories - Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Marius-Mircea Cri an.- 5. Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany - Sam George.- 6. Count Dracula's Lifetime Identity and Address - Hans Corneel de Roos.- 7. Dracula and the Psychic World of the East End of London - Clive Bloom.- 8. Tourism and Travel in Bram Stoker's Dracula - Duncan Light.- 9. Castle Hunedoara and the Dracula Myth: Connection or Speculation? - Marius-Mircea Cri an.- 10. Location and the Vampire: The Impact of Fictional Stories upon Associated Locations - Kristin L. Bone.- 11. In Search of Dracula's Oracular History - John Edgar Browning.- 12. Vampiric Emotion and Identity in Dracula and Interview with the Vampire - Nancy Schumann.- 13. Gothic and Horror in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Aesthetic Experience and Emotional Impact - Magdalena Grabias.- 14. Papa Dracula: Vampires for Family Values? - Dorota Babilas.- 15. The Evolution of Gothic Spaces: Ruins, Forests, Urban Jungles - Carol Senf.