Food For The Dead: On The Trail of New England's Vampires is written by Rhode Island folklorist Michael E. Bell; it was published about ten years ago--way before the current vampire craze spawned by Twilight and True Blood and their compatriots. The author spent two decades tracing the origin of the legends of New England's vampires, and the New England legend is not your stereotypical, Hollywood vampire. Bell uses interviews, newspaper and other published accounts, as well as town records to research various local, Rhode Island vampire legends. He also utilizes genealogical research to trace the origin of several vampire legends back to a single Rhode Island family. Bell paints an intriguing, fascinating and, at times, puzzling picture of Rhode Island's own vampire legend. In eighteenth and nineteenth century America a bloody, deadly and mysterious ghoul was stalking its citizens, indeed, entire families in some instances: this was the ever dreaded disease con...
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