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Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
Michael E. Bell
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Description for Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
paperback. Startling true stories behind New England's vampire legends-back in print with a new preface by the author Num Pages: 390 pages, 16 illus. 1 map. 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 558.
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 bodies of the deceased. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, ... Read more
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 bodies of the deceased. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
Number of Pages
390
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819571700
SKU
V9780819571700
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