Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Needing to know the plural of apocalypse 1: The Legacy of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend 2: ‘Cancer with a Purpose’: Putting the Vampire Under the Microscope 3: The Second Rising: The Resurgence of the Cinematic Zombie 4: A Very Slow Apocalypse: Zombie TV 5: The Hybrid Hero 6: ‘Be Me’: I Vampire/ I Zombie 7: How to Survive a Vampire Apocalypse: or, what to do when the vampires are us Afterword: They Walk Among Us: Vampires and Zombies Popular Culture Filmography TV Guide Work Cited