Eco-Vampires

<p> This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead. Many of these texts and films show the vampire to be an essential part of a global ecosystem and an organism that can no longer tolerate the all-consuming forces of globalization and consumerism. Re-examining Bram Stoker's <I>Dracula</I> and a range of other vampire narratives primarily films in a fresh light this book reveals the <I>nosferatu</P> as both a plague on humankind and the eco-warriors that planet Earth desperately needs.</p>