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Vampires and Female Spiritual Transformation:

Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

—Vicky Gilpin

Crossing the Spiritual Wasteland in Priest

—Joseph Laycock

Vampires Are People, Too: Personalism in the Buffyverse

—Jarrod Longbons

The Vampire that Haunts Highgate: Theological Evil,

Hammer Horror, and the Highgate Vampire Panic in Britain,

1963–1974

—W. Scott Poole

The Living Christ and The Walking Dead: Karl Barth and the

Theological Zombie

—Jessica DeCou

Zombie Walks, Zombie Jesus, and the Eschatology of

Postmodern Flesh

—John W. Morehead

When All Is Lost, Gather ’Round: Solidarity as Hope

Resisting Despair in The Walking Dead

—Ashley Moyse

Apocalyptic Images and Prophetic Function in Zombie

Films

—Kim Paffenroth

Negotiating (Non)Existence: Justifications of Violence in

Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead

—J. Ryan Parker

When You’re Undead, the Whole World Is Jewish

—Arnold T. Blumberg

“Eat of My Body and Drink of My Blood”: Johannine

Metaphor, Gothic Subculture, and the Undead

—Beth Stovell

Fire, Brimstone and PVC: Clive Barker’s Cenobites as Agents

of Hell

—Andrea Subissati