Food for the Dead
On the Trail of New England's Vampires
by Michael E. Bell
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"Close your eyes and imagine a vampire: Your mind's eye may conjure up Count Dracula with bared teeth and a shiny tuxedo. But, another kind of vampire was believed to live in rural New England long ago. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell has spent twenty years pursuing this forgotten vampire tradition. His discoveries will surprise and enthrall skeptics, believers, and all readers of this engaging book.".
"Bell's odyssey began in 1981 when Rhode Islander Everett Peck told him a family story passed down for generations. In 1892, months after young Mercy Brown succumbed to tuberculosis, her body was exhumed from a local graveyard. Relatives cut out her heart, burned it on a nearby rock, and fed the ashes to her dying brother, hoping to cure him of the wasting disease. They feared that Mercy had become a vampire, sapping her sibling's vitality to provide sustenance for her own spectral existence.
Or, had she become a scapegoat, blamed for the baffling affliction ravaging her family?"--BOOK JACKET.
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Vampires, Folklore, History, Diseases and history, TuberculosisShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
2013, Wesleyan University Press
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Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
October 2002, Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
October 10, 2001, Carroll & Graf
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"I hated to admit, even to myself, that I was excited by the prospect of interviewing Lewis Everett Peck, an Exeter, Rhode Island, farmer and descendent of Mercy Brown, who was probably the last person exhumed as a vampire in America."
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