Happy Halloween…

Looking for a nail-biting story to celebrate Halloween? Forget Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula, try Michael E. Bell’s Food for the Dead! In chilling detail, Bell reconstructs a distant world, where on March 17, 1892, three corpses were exhumed from a Rhode Island cemetery. One of them, Mercy Brown, who had succumbed to consumption, appeared to have turned over in her grave. Mercy’s family cut out her heart, burnt it, and fed the ashes to her ailing brother. From documents written as early as 1790 to a recent conversation with a descendant of Mercy Brown, Bell investigates twenty cases in which the vampiric dead were exhumed to save the ailing living.