In 1800s America, one thing terrifying is feeding on the quiet city of Exeter. As members of George Brown’s household succumb one after the other, the city considers drastic measures to guard the dwelling from the lifeless.
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Additional Studying
Books
Meals for the Lifeless: On the Path of New England’s Vampires (2013) by Michael Bell.
All the pieces is Tuberculosis: The Historical past and Persistence of Our Deadliest An infection (2025) by John Inexperienced.
Articles
“New England ‘Vampire’ Was Possible a Farmer Named John” by Jason Daley, Smithsonian Journal (fifth August 2019). Out there right here.
“Outdated cemetery revealing its secrets and techniques” by Jenn Heldt, The Bulletin (twenty fourth March 1990). Out there right here.
“Cemetery Holds Tales of Vampires” by Sam Libby, New York Instances (sixteenth February 1922). Out there right here.
“The Nice New England Vampire Panic” by Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian (October 2012). Out there right here.
“The Man with a Fish on His Again” by Diane Wendy, Distillations Journal (third April 2010). Out there right here.
“Exeter Hill”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (fifth February 1887).
“Greene Valley”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (fifth April 1889).
“Exeter Hill and the Neighborhood”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty ninth Might 1891).
“Exeter Hill and Neighborhood”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty seventh November 1891).
“Exeter Hill and Vicnity”, Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty second January 1892).
“Exeter Hill and Neighborhood”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty sixth February 1892).
“Exeter Hill and the Neighborhood”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty fifth October 1892).
“Exeter Hill”, Pautuxet Valley Gleaner (twenty second June 1900).
“Exhumed the Our bodies: Testing a Horrible Superstition within the City of Exeter, The Windfall Journal (nineteenth March 1892).
“The Vampire Concept: That Seek for the Spectral Ghoul within the Exeter Graves”, The Windfall Journal (twenty first March 1892).
“Exeter”, Rhode Island Pendulum (thirty first July 1891).
“Exeter”, Rhode Island Pendulum (thirteenth Might 1892).
“Edwin A. Brown”, The Commonplace (twentieth Might 1892).
Tutorial Articles and Historic Surveys
“Historic and Architectural Sources of South Kingstown, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report”, Rhode Island Historic Preservation Fee (1984). Out there right here.
“DNA Testing Reveals the Putative Identification of JB55, a nineteenth Century Vampire Buried in Griswold, Connecticut” by Jennifer Daniels-Higginbotham et al., Genes (Basel), twenty second August 2019, 10(9), p. 636. Out there right here.
“Bioarcheological and Biocultural proof for the New England vampire folks perception” by Paul Sledzik and Nicholas Bellantoni, The American Journal of Bodily Anthropology, June 1994, 94(2), pp. 269-74. Out there right here.
“Late-life cardiac interventions and the remedy crucial” by Janet Okay Shim, Ann J Russ and Sharon R Kaufman, PLOS Medication, 4 March 2008, 5(3). Out there right here.
“Dying and the remedy crucial: Resolution-making in late-stage most cancers” by Alexandra Tate, Social Science & Medication, August 2022, 306. Out there right here.
Blogs and Web sites
“Tuberculosis: A Trendy Illness?” by Imogen Clarke, Science Museum (twenty fourth March 2019). Out there right here.
“Tuberculosis Half Two: Remedies and Cures”, Science Museum (sixth February 2024). Out there right here.
“Story of Us – T is for Tuberculosis”, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Out there right here.
“Some Candy Day, By and By”, Hymnary.org. Out there right here.
“Have Mercy…” by Jennifer L. Galpern, Rhode Island Historic Society (thirty first October 2016). Out there right here.
“Exeter Historical past”, City of Exeter Rhode Island. Out there right here.
“Tuberculosis”, Saint John’s Most cancers Institute. Out there right here.
