America's Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction

We often think of the enduring tropes of the Gothic in terms of fiction and film-breath-catching escapes that tap into our fears, anxieties, forbidden desires, and unsettling dreams. But what if some of these chilly vibes are rooted in the experiences of real and tragic people who danced a macabre waltz with love and death? That's why we're here. Take the case of teenage Mercy Brown, victim-or was it predator?-of Rhode Island's vampire hysteria of the 1890s. Marguerite de la Roque, a French...