Spoiler
Thinking about it now, I'm not actually sure why it was that I split this chapter up? I think I failed to realise just how short this section was.
Chapter 1 (Part 2)
There were not enough books. Ruby drummed her fingers against the deep stained wood of the case in agitation as her eyes scanned over the titles it held, Wuthering Heights, Sherlock Holmes, Interview with a Vampire, she’d read them all countless times. There was not a single volume on that shelf that had not already been read and digested and possibly even dropped in a hot bath when she’d gotten particularly involved in some salaciously scandalous storyline. Nothing with new unexpected thrills to excite her, no new characters to discover and fall in and out and then in love with again. It was enough to make Ruby want to scream.
But then, by the sounds of it, someone else had beaten her to it. There was a frantic knocking at her door, accompanied by muffled wailing and moaning and – was that swearing?
“It still counts even if I can’t hear you properly!” Ruby called through the door. There was silence for brief a moment and then, as if all of her manners had promptly been forgotten about, Hannah’s head appeared through the varnished wooden panes.
“But that’s not fair,” she said, sniffing.
“I take it that the interview did not go too well?”
Hannah shook her head and her lower lip began to quiver, eyes glistening as tears began to well up within in them once more.
“Can I come in, Ruby?”
“Well, you’re already half-way there.”
Even though she’d done it more times than she cared to count, it still all felt very unnatural to Hannah, passing through things that were meant to be firm and solid and not-passed-through. She made her way through a single limb at a time, staggering to keep her balance, before pulling the crux of her body along to join her flailing arms and legs.
It was not particularly dignified.
Ruby took her by the shoulders and sat her down upon the chaise longue. Hannah seemed calm enough, until Ruby made the innocent mistake of asking her what had happened.
“It had all gone so well,” she wailed, miserably “but then his head, Ruby, his head!”
“Oh come now, you never know. He could be as sweet as a puppy, unable to put the shivers into anyone.”
“Well he certainly managed to put them into me,” Hannah said. “What am I going to do? I don’t have a job and I’m so far behind on my rent that my landlord is going to kill me, or at least he would if the opportunity was still there. I’m going to end up homeless, Ruby, I can see it now. I’ll be wandering around the streets with a sign that says ‘will haunt for food’ until some big black dog comes and eats my soul, or even worse takes me to his creepy castle and locks me up there to save it for later!”
“I don’t think vampires really tend to go for the already-dead…”
“But you don’t know that! Maybe they’ve become health conscious and we’re like a low-fat variety of living folk! Maybe ghosts are stolen away and eaten all the time and because none of them ever come back there’s nobody to warn us!”
“How about this,” Ruby slid up to her feet and strode over to the bookshelf, “you can stay here tonight. That way you don’t have to worry about being evicted, or living on the streets, or crossing paths with any dark and devilish canines. In return, you pop down to the market tomorrow and buy me some new books.”
Hannah glanced at the bowing timers of the bookcase. The wooden frame was sagging under the sheer weight of so many tomes and digests, and she wondered if she’d be blamed for buying the last few volumes that would tip it all into a mess of scattered pages, splintered wood, and ruined hardbacks.
Still, on balance, she decided that it was better than to risk ending up as the lunch-time menu special for some Transylvanian overlord.
It's just that I think the dialogue could stand to be backed up. Of course, this could just be your style of writing. If so, you can ignore me 
The final sentence doesn't do it for me -- the joke's already been made earlier on -- and it just doesn't *sound* finished when I read it aloud. Perhaps it's just me that does that, but it's definitely easier to spot awkward dialogue or sloppy sentence structure that way. I'm going to see if I can find some examples of humourous endings:
