s the official journal of the Vampire Studies Association, a not-for-profit founded to stimulate, disseminate and publish vampire scholarship. In this issue, Paul Murray travels through Dracula's Transylvania, Lloyd Graham discusses the parallels between patriarchal blood rituals and vampires, and Álvaro García Marín shares his discovery of a nineteenth-century vampire story with elements pre-dating Dracula by over fifty years. All this and more!