New Orleans Vampires: History and Legend

by Marita Woywod Crandle

Overview

A New Orleans historian and vampire expert uncovers the historic origins of the Southern city's vampire legends from colonial days to the Great Depression.
 
New Orleans has a reputation as a home for creatures of the night. Popular books, movies and television shows have cemented the city's connection to vampires in the public imagination. But the stories of the Crescent City's undead residents go much deeper than the tales of Sookie Stackhouse and The Vampire Lestat. In New Orleans Vampires, author Marita Woywod Crandle investigates the most haunting tales of vampirism in New Orleans history.
 
In the early days of Louisiana's colonization, rumors swirled about the fate of the Casket Girls, a group of mysterious maidens traveling to the New World from France with peculiar casket-shaped boxes. The charismatic Comte St. Germain moved to the French Quarter in the early 1900s, eerily resembling a European aristocrat of one hundred years prior bearing the same name. In the 1930s, the Carter brothers terrorized the town with their desire to feed on living human blood. Strange but true tales mix with immortal legends in this fascinating volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439662700
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	07/31/2020
Series:	Haunted America
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	131
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Marita Woywod Crandle has been writing and storytelling since she was a little girl. She has always had a fancy for the magical side of life, making New Orleans, with its very creative atmosphere, a perfect match for this German transplant. Marita is currently working on a novel dedicated to one of the French Quarter legends, the Carter Brothers, and the book Drinking Mistakes, her memoirs as a Bourbon Street bartender. Marita has also written the holiday children's book Rufus, the Yuletide Bat, available at her gift store.

Table of Contents

Foreword Dacre Stoker 9

Preface 11

Acknowledgements 15

Introduction 17

Part 1 The Casket Girls

1 The Promised Land 25

2 The Ursulines Journey South 38

3 The Business of the Attic 45

4 The Casket Girls: The Legend Lives On 48

Part 2 The Comte St. Germain

5 The Mysterious Gentleman Who Would Not Eat 55

6 The Courtier 60

7 The "Death" of St. Germain 75

8 St. Germain as Vampire 77

Part 3 The Garter Brothers

9 Blood Brothers 81

10 The Barber Pole 85

11 A Year and a Day 89

Part 4 Vampire Evolution Over the Centuries

12 Vampire Evolution and Influence on Art and Literature 95

13 Sanguinarian 99

Afterword: The Stranger with a Cane, My New Orleans Vampire Experience 103

Bibliography 107

Index 109

About the Author 111