Introduction : "If a tree falls in the woods, it's still a tree, ain't it?"
"I used to hate vampires, until I got to know one" : vampire-human ethics
"Life-challenged individuals" : the politics of being dead
"Their very blood is seductive" : eros, sexuality, and gender
"I am actually older than your Jesus" : natural, supernatural, and divine
"Our existence is insanity" : the metaphysics of supernatural beings
"I don't know who you think you are, but before the night is through..."
Sookie's words of the day.
To turn or not to turn : the ethics of making vampires / Christopher Robichaud --
Dressing up and playing human : vampire assimilation in the human playground / Jennifer Culver --
Pets, cattle, and higher life forms on True Blood / Ariadne Blayde and George A. Dunn --
Signed in blood : rights and the vampire-human social contract / Joseph J. Foy --
"Honey, if we can't kill people, what's the point of being a vampire?" : can vampires be good citizens? / William M. Curtis --
Un-true blood : the politics of artificiality / Bruce A. McClelland --
Coming out of the coffin and coming out of the closet / Patricia Brace and Robert Arp --
"I am Sookie, hear me roar!" : Sookie Stackhouse and feminist ambivalence / Lillian E. Craton and Kathryn E. Jonell --
Sookie, Sigmund, and the edible complex / Ron Hirschbein --
Let the bon temps roll : sacrifice, scapegoats, and good times / Kevin J. Corn and George A. Dunn --
Are vampires unnatural? / Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen --
Does God hate fangs? / Adam Barkman --
A vampire's heart has its reasons that scientific naturalism can't understand / Susan Peppers-Bates and Joshua Rust --
Keeping secrets from Sookie / Fred Curry --
Vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters : the more they change, the more they stay the same / Sarah Grubb.
