Drakul. Nosferatu. Upyr. Vampyre. There have been many names for what we know today as the
vampire. For over a century literature television cinema and many other areas in our daily
lives cannot be imagined without the appearance of this fictional character. Almost everyone is
familiar with the image of the walking undead that creeps out of its coffin at night and sucks
the blood out of humans. The undead has always been appealing to its audience. It is the
otherness of such monsters their frightful darkness and exoticism that makes them so
interesting. This book deals with the figure of the vampire regarded as the unknown other and
how it is fictionally represented in the American TV series True Blood (2008 - ). Considering
both psychoanalytical concepts as well identity theory the author depicts the literary and
cinematographic development of the fictional figure of the vampire since the late nineteenth
century and analyzes different representations of the vampire and its otherness as well as
their appeal to the audience in the True Blood.
