Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires by Michael E. Bell

Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires

Michael E. Bell

352 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history dark mysterious medium-paced
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For nineteenth-century New Englanders, "vampires" lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bod...

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