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Food for the Dead : On the Trail of New England’s Vampires /
"Close your eyes and imagine a vampire: Your mind's eye may conjure up Count Dracula with bared teeth and a shiny tuxedo. But, another kind of vampire was believed to live in rural New England long ago. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell has spent twenty years pursuing this forgotten va...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wesleyan Univ Pr
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- ch. 1. This awful thing
- ch. 2. Testing a horrible superstition
- ch. 3. Remarkable happenings
- ch. 4. The cause of their trouble lay before them
- ch. 5. I am waiting and watching for you
- ch. 6. I thought for sure they were coming after me
- ch. 7. Don't be a rational adult
- ch. 8. Never strangers true vampires be
- ch. 9. Ghoulish, wolfish shapes
- ch. 10. The unending river of life
- ch. 11. Relicks of many old customs
- ch. 12. A ghoul in every deserted fireplace
- ch. 13. Is that true of all vampires?
- ch. 14. Food for the dead
- appendix A. Chronology of vampire incidents in New England
- appendix B. Children of Stukeley and Honor Tillinghast
- Notes
- Works sited
- Index
- About the author.