The author of A Guide to Haunted New England lifts the coffin lid on the region’s folklore and legends of the undead. New England is rich in history and myste

These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is “a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs” (The Boston Gl

Contains over seventy tales of ghostly hauntings from each of the fifty United States and Canada.

These are not fictional tales, but expert investigations of real people who were thought by their neighbors and others to be vampires--often with good reason. P

Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.