"This book will help to dispel the notion that cemeteries are dark and depressing places to visit. In the 19th century, families visited cemeteries and often ha
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
Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkene
1830s Birch Falls, Vermont One by one Jerusha Kendall’s siblings fall victim to consumption, the scourge of the 19th century. Devastated by the loss of her ch