New Orleans Vampires: History and Legend

by Marita Woywod Crandle

Overview

New Orleans has a reputation as a home for creatures of the night. Popular books, movies and television shows have cemented the city's connection to vampires in public imagination.

Rumors swirled about the fate of the Casket Girls, a group of mysterious maidens traveling to the New World from France with peculiar casket-shaped boxes. A charismatic man who moved to the French Quarter in the early 1900s eerily resembled a European aristocrat of one hundred years prior bearing the same name. A pair of brothers terrorized the town with their desire to feed on living human blood during the Great Depression. Marita Woywod Crandle investigates the origins of these legends so intricately woven through New Orleans's rich history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467137423
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/25/2017
Series:	Haunted America
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	285,987
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Marita Woywod Crandle has been writing and storytelling since she was a little girl. She has always had a fancy for the magical side of life, making New Orleans, with its very creative atmosphere, a perfect match for this German transplant. Marita is currently working on a novel dedicated to one of the French Quarter legends, the Carter Brothers, and the book Drinking Mistakes, her memoirs as a Bourbon Street bartender. Marita has also written the holiday children's book Rufus, the Yuletide Bat, available at her gift store.

Table of Contents

Foreword Dacre Stoker 9

Preface 11

Acknowledgements 15

Introduction 17

Part 1 The Casket Girls

1 The Promised Land 25

2 The Ursulines Journey South 38

3 The Business of the Attic 45

4 The Casket Girls: The Legend Lives On 48

Part 2 The Comte St. Germain

5 The Mysterious Gentleman Who Would Not Eat 55

6 The Courtier 60

7 The "Death" of St. Germain 75

8 St. Germain as Vampire 77

Part 3 The Garter Brothers

9 Blood Brothers 81

10 The Barber Pole 85

11 A Year and a Day 89

Part 4 Vampire Evolution Over the Centuries

12 Vampire Evolution and Influence on Art and Literature 95

13 Sanguinarian 99

Afterword: The Stranger with a Cane, My New Orleans Vampire Experience 103

Bibliography 107

Index 109

About the Author 111