Un-Dead TV

Today, vampires are ubiquitous in our popular culture. From movies to television, in fiction and in art, and even within the hallowed halls of academia, these preternatural creatures of the night are turning up everywhere. But in the not-so-distant past, vampires evoked more fear than fascination; they lived in the shadows and were the stuff of nightmares. Our concept of them was forever changed with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897.
Bela Lugosi, whose iconic portrayal of Stoker’s vampire was a hit on both the stage and screen, appeared in 1949 on one of the first televised variety series, The Texaco Star Theater. In the guise of his most famous role, Lugosi brought the vampire into our living rooms, heralding an undead presence on TV that steadily increased before skyrocketing with the arrival of Buffy Summers to Sunnydale, California.
The medium of television, in turn, has played a critical role in the evolution of the vampire; these fanged fiends have become as diverse as the population that they prey upon, and every generation creates their own interpretation. For over sixty-five years, the undead have bled the TV airwaves, rising from the crypt in all manner of programming. In this expanded and updated second edition, Un-Dead TV catalogues over one thousand such appearances, and is the only book of its kind to explore this phenomenon to the extent that it truly deserves.

Second Edition, revised and expanded. In 1994, Brad Middleton created “Vampyres Only,” the first vampire pop culture website on the Internet (http://vampyres.ca). It remains the largest, longest-running and most extensive online source for all things vampiric. The website has been profiled across all media, and Brad’s expertise on the subject has led to consultations with such authors as Katherine Ramsland, who tapped him as a source for her ground-breaking book Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today (HarperCollins, 1998). In 2009, Brad wrote about television vampires for the third edition of The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead (Visible Ink Press, 2011). Realizing that the subject demanded further study, he continued researching for another three years, which culminated in the publication of Un-Dead TV in 2012—which has been updated and revised for this second edition.

"Perusing this book is nothing but pure entertainment, yet both fans and scholars of the sub-genre will

come away enlightened...Kudos to Middleton for this huge bite into previously uncharted bloodsucker

territory."
NANCY KILPATRICK
Dark Fantasy/Horror author and editor
(as reviewed in BEWARE THE DARK #2)

"I wholeheartedly recommend this book if you enjoy reading about vampires on television, or if you are an

author writing about those subjects. Un-Dead TV is an invaluable resource, and one that will find prized real

estate on my office shelf."
JOHN KENNETH MUIR
Award-winning author, journalist and critic

"Un-Dead TV fills a previously empty research niche, and provides lots of browsing entertainment. Vampire

lovers and scholars should find much to like in these pages."
Robert Morrish
TWILIGHT RIDGE

"Un-Dead TV is an amazing work, a vampirologist's dream resource book. From page one to the very end,

even the most educated vampire researcher and knowledgeable fan alike will learn details on vampires in

television's history. Author Brad Middleton truly lives up to the book's subtitle 'The Ultimate Guide to

Vampire Television' as he covers everything from Dark Shadows to cartoons and obscure vampires you may

never have heard of. Without a doubt it belongs in the library of anyone who is fascinated by vampires!"
E.R. Vernor "Corvis Nocturnum"
author of Allure of the Vampire: Our Sexual Attraction to the Undead (Dark Moon Press 2009) and Vampire

Evolution: From Myth to Modern Day (Schiffer Publishing 2014)

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