ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the vampire and zombie beginning in and following the eighteenth century, tracing their distinct yet overlapping developmental lineages. The vampire, or 'vampyre', begins to appear in English-language newspapers as early as the eighteenth century, often pejoratively to describe certain businessmen and professionals, corporations, banks and bankers, politicians, even, for Marx, 'Capital', which 'vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks'. In many ways, zombies have replaced the vampire as a figure through which we, collectively and societally, cope with death, not so much in the way of blaming the zombie for death and misfortune, as we did with the vampire centuries earlier, but rather in how we survive or die with dignity. Like the vampire, the zombie, too, has transcended multiple genres, from literature, film, television, video games, comic books, and, yes, even pornography.
