OTHER TITLES IN THE SMART POP SERIES -- Title Page -- Giving the Devil Her Due - Why Guilty Pleasures Isn't One -- 1. Hamilton Realized That Female Readers Want a Kick-Ass Heroine They Can ... -- 2. Hamilton Didn't Shy Away From, or Romanticize, the Sex -- 3. Blake Has Real Problems -- 4. Male Characters Are Somewhat Idealized, but Have to Work to Keep Up with the ... -- Girls Gone Wild - Britney, Bertha, and Anita Blake (How a Southern Virgin, a ... -- Ambiguous Anita -- Dating the Monsters - Why It Takes a Vampire or a Wereguy to Win the Heart of ... -- Buffy, Anita Blake, and the Paranormal Romance Invasion -- The Needs of Culture Vs. the Needs of Drama -- So What Are the Needs of Culture? -- What About the Needs of Drama? -- Love's Savage Fury -- Taboo or Not Taboo -- All Is Fair in Love and War -- No Sissy Men Need Apply -- Of Lords and Pirate Captains -- Behold the Super Girl! -- Enter the Monster -- Anita in Love -- The Hero of Culture Vs. the Hero of Drama -- Beauty and The Beast Revisited -- Bon Rapports -- Mom! There's Something Dead Sucking on My Neck! -- The Other Side of the Street - Anita Blake and the Horror Renaissance -- The Domestication of a Vampire Executioner -- It Takes a Monster to Catch a Monster -- Anita's Keeping a List, Checking It Twice -- Monsters Have Feelings, Too -- A Marriage of Convenience -- Penguins, Spiders, and Leopards, Oh My! -- The Black Wrought-Iron Fence -- Ardeur's Purpose -- The Ardeur's Challenge -- Anita's Growth -- Other Strong Women -- Human Friendships -- The Future: Asher as Redemption -- Trying the System -- Are the Fangs Real? - Vampires as Racial Metaphor in the Anita Blake Novels -- It All Starts with Dracula -- The American Vampire -- Jean-Claude et al. -- The Times, They Are a Changing -- Under the Surface -- Beyond the Metaphor -- Death Becomes Her - The Role of Anita's Necromancy.

Fun with Zombies -- From Animator to Necromancer -- Blue Munin and Other Health Issues: Anita as Healer -- Nec-Romance: Love Sucks, and It Bites, Too -- Hell's Belles -- In Death We Trust -- Death's Got Your Back - When Edward and the Big Bad Heavies Are on Your Team -- Showing the Scars -- About Laurell K. Hamilton -- Copyright Page.