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200 10$aFood for the dead$b[electronic resource] $eon the trail of New England's vampires /$fMichael E. Bell
205   $aWesleyan pbk. ed.
210   $aMiddletown, Conn. $cWesleyan University Press$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (392 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8195-7170-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue --$gch. 1.$tThis awful thing --$gch. 2.$tTesting a horrible superstition --$gch. 3.$tRemarkable happenings --$gch. 4.$tThe cause of their trouble lay before them --$gch. 5.$tI am waiting and watching for you --$gch. 6.$tI thought for sure they were coming after me --$gch. 7.$tDon't be a rational adult --$gch. 8.$tNever strangers true vampires be --$gch. 9.$tGhoulish, wolfish shapes --$gch. 10.$tThe unending river of life --$gch. 11.$tRelicks of many old customs --$gch. 12.$tA ghoul in every deserted fireplace --$gch. 13.$tIs that true of all vampires? --$gch. 14.$tFood for the dead --$gappendix A.$tChronology of vampire incidents in New England --$gappendix B.$tChildren of Stukeley and Honor Tillinghast --$tNotes --$tWorks sited --$tIndex --$tAbout the author.
330 1 $a"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 vampire tradition. His discoveries will surprise and enthrall skeptics, believers, and all readers of this engaging book." "Bell's odyssey began in 1981 when Rhode Islander Everett Peck told him a family story passed down for generations. In 1892, months after young Mercy Brown succumbed to tuberculosis, her body was exhumed from a local graveyard. Relatives cut out her heart, burned it on a nearby rock, and fed the ashes to her dying brother, hoping to cure him of the wasting disease. They feared that Mercy had become a vampire, sapping her sibling's vitality to provide sustenance for her own spectral existence. Or, had she become a scapegoat, blamed for the baffling affliction ravaging her family?"--BOOK JACKET.
606   $aDiseases and history
606   $aFolklore$zNew England
606   $aVampires$zNew England$vFolklore
607   $aNew England$xHistory
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615  0$aDiseases and history.
615  0$aFolklore
615  0$aVampires
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