Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction - The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters -- Or, the Vampire and Why It Needs to Be Destroyed -- Chapter One - The Evolution of Vampire Killing: A Pop Culture Primer -- The Origins of the Vampire -- Dracula Has Risen from the Grave -- Ghouls on Film -- Rise of the Planet of the Vamps -- The Slayer, Revamped -- Youth Springs Eternal -- Chapter Two - Detection, Prevention and Protection -- Detection -- Prevetion -- Protection -- Chapter Three - The Weapons -- I. Staking -- II. Decapitation -- III. Fire -- IV. Sunlight -- V. Silver -- VI. Love -- Chapter Four - In Praise of the Slayer -- I. Professor Abraham Van Helsing, MD, PhD, DLitt -- II. Robert Neville -- III. Blade -- IV. The Frog Brothers -- V. Anita Blake -- VI. Buffy Summers -- Chapter Five - A Few Words on Vampire Suicide -- Acknowledgements -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.