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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: For the "Supes" We Just Can't Live Without. Introduction: "If a Tree Falls in the Woods, It's Still a Tree-Ain't It?" PART ONE: "I USED TO HATE VAMPIRES, UNTIL I GOT TO KNOW ONE": VAMPIRE-HUMAN ETHICS. 1 To Turn or Not to Turn: The Ethics of Making Vampires (Christopher Robichaud). 2 Dressing Up and Playing Human: Vampire Assimilation in the Human Playground (Jennifer Culver). 3 Pets, Cattle, and Higher Life Forms on True Blood (Ariadne Blayde and George A. Dunn). PART TWO: "LIFE-CHALLENGED INDIVIDUALS": THE POLITICS OF BEING DEAD. 4 Signed in Blood: Rights and the Vampire-Human Social Contract (Joseph J. Foy). 5 "Honey, If We Can't Kill People, What's the Point of Being a Vampire?": Can Vampires Be Good Citizens? (William M. Curtis). 6 Un-True Blood: The Politics of Artifi ciality (Bruce A. McClelland). PART THREE: "THEIR VERY BLOOD IS SEDUCTIVE": EROS, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER. 7 Coming Out of the Coffi n and Coming Out of the Closet (Patricia Brace and Robert Arp). 8 "I Am Sookie, Hear Me Roar!": Sookie Stackhouse and Feminist Ambivalence (Lillian E. Craton and Kathryn E. Jonell). 9 Sookie, Sigmund, and the Edible Complex (Ron Hirschbein). PART FOUR: "I AM ACTUALLY OLDER THAN YOUR JESUS": NATURAL, SUPERNATURAL, AND DIVINE. 10 Let the Bon Temps Roll: Sacrifi ce, Scapegoats, and Good Times (Kevin J. Corn and George A. Dunn). 11 Are Vampires Unnatural? (Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen). 12 Does God Hate Fangs? (Adam Barkman). PART FIVE: "OUR EXISTENCE IS INSANITY": THE METAPHYSICS OF SUPERNATURAL BEINGS. 13 A Vampire's Heart Has Its Reasons That Scientifi c Naturalism Can't Understand (Susan Peppers-Bates and Joshua Rust). 14 Keeping Secrets from Sookie (Fred Curry). 15 Vampires, Werewolves, and Shapeshifters: The More They Change, the More They Stay the Same (Sarah Grubb). CONTRIBUTORS: "I Don't Know Who You Think You Are, but Before the Night Is Through ..." INDEX: Sookie's Words of the Day.