My paper argues that Stephenie Meyers now cult work, Twilight, suggests a domestication of the vampire. This process of domesticating the undead, it argues, is worked out through the themes of masculinity, the family and sexuality. In my first section, vampiric masculinity, I examine the portrayal of Edward, arguing that he represents a supernatural masculinity in drag. In section II, on vampire families and their blood relations, I explore the domestic relations and arrangements of vampires, to propose that the family becomes a key mode of, and moment in, the domestication-socialization of the vampire. I then turn to sexuality in the novel, arguing that Twilight appropriates two positions, of the threatened teen from conventional Gothic fiction and the teen as threat from contemporary Gothic, with touches of SM and necrophilic fantasies, and where the channeling of sexuality is a mode of domestication. In my conclusion I speculate on the cultural imaginary and anxieties of race and gender, blood lines and kinship, and racial mixing that Twilight seems to encode.