一般注記Introduction -- Polidori's The vampyre and the dangers of philhellenism to Italian liberation -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich (1867) -- Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Treaty of Berlin (1878) -- Bram Stoker's The lady of the shroud and the Bosnia crisis (1908-09) -- The vampires of Illyria : Nodier, Mérimée, and the French occupation of the Dalmatian coast -- Jules Verne's Le château des Carpathes (1892) and the Romans of Transylvania -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Translations from Mérimée's La Guzla -- Short chronology of relevant events.