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

Startling true stories behind New England's vampire legends—back in print with a new preface by the authorFor 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 li...