Table of Contents
1 Horror Legends and Personalities 13
Joan Bennett 14
Joseph Payne Brennan 16
Aleister Crowley 18
Bette Davis 20
Charles Dickens 22
Myrna Fahey 24
Edward Gorey 25
Margaret Hamilton 28
Nathaniel Hawthorne 29
P. T. Barnum 32
Shirley Jackson 35
Henry and William James 37
Stephen King 39
H. P. Lovecraft 41
Increase and Cotton Mather 44
Elizabeth Montgomery 46
José Clemente Orozco 47
Bobby "Boris" Pickett 49
Edgar Allan Poe 51
Claude Rains 54
Edith Wharton 55
Rob Zombie 58
2 Infamous Crimes, Killers, and Tragedies 61
Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast 62
Birthplace of H. H. Holmes 65
Black Dahlia Memorial 67
Spooner Well 69
Grave of the Boston Strangler 71
Hartford Circus Fire Memorial 73
Graves of the Smuttynose Murder Victims 76
The Station Fire Site 78
Art of Jack Kevorkian 80
Colebrook Murder Victims Memorial 83
Deerfield Massacre Mass Grave 85
Grave of Sarah Ware 87
Josie Langmaid Monument 88
Birthplace of Ted Bundy 90
Boston Massacre Site and Mass Grave 91
James Allen's Book of Skin 94
Great Boston Molasses Flood Marker 96
Cocoanut Grove Fire Plaque 98
3 Horror Movie-Filming Locales 101
Beetlejuice (1988) 102
Dark Shadows (1966-1971) 104
Flowers in the Attic (1987) 106
Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981) 108
Ghost Story (1981) 110
The Good Son (1993) 112
Hocus Pocus (1993) 113
The House by the Cemetery (1981) 115
I Spit on Your Grave (1978) 117
In Dreams (1999) 119
Jaws (1975) 121
The Last House on the Left (1972) 123
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) 125
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) 127
Session 9 (2001) 129
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) 132
The Stepford Wives (1975) 133
Stephen King Film Adaptations 135
Warlock (1989) 140
What Lies Beneath (2000) 142
The Willies (1990) 144
The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 146
4 Notable Cemeteries, Gravestones, and Other Memento Mori 149
Grave with a Window 150
Center Church Crypt 152
Grave with a Glow 154
Skull Cliff 156
Grave of Midnight Mary 158
Phineas Gage Landmark and Skull 160
Sugar Hill Cemetery 162
Grave of Ocean-Born Mary 164
Adams Memorial 166
Memorial Arch of Tilton 168
Hope Cemetery 170
Blood Cemetery 171
Grave of a Knight Templar 173
Boston Tombstone Skull Iconography 175
Skull and Bones Tomb 177
Panarchy Tomb Room 179
Mexican Tomb Figure Collection 181
Grave with a Grudge 184
Green Mount Cemetery 186
Grave of Sarah Winchester 189
Spider Gates Cemetery 190
Grave of Susanna Jayne 193
5 Classic Monsters 197
Aliens
Hill Abduction, Part I: The Route and the Graves 198
Hill Abduction, Part II: The Bathroom Shrine and the Artifacts 202
Incident at Exeter 205
Cryptids
International Cryptozoology Museum 207
Lake Champlain Monster 210
Feejee Mermaids 212
Dover Demon 215
Witches
Goody Cole 217
Grave of the Witch 219
Witches of Salem 221
Salem Village Witchcraft Victims Memorial 223
Colonel Buck Memorial 225
Witch Rock 226
Vampires
Grave of Mercy Brown 228
Ray Family Plot 231
Mummies
P.T. Barnum's Pa-lb 233
Grave of the Mummy 235
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Funerary Exhibit 237
Hands of the Mummy 238
Mummy of Massachusetts General Hospital 240
Demons
Devil's Footprint 243
Demon Murder Trial Sites 245
Moodus Noises 246
Moulton Mansion and Cenotaph 248
Snedeker House 249
Lithobolia, the Stone-Throwing Devil 251
Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal 253
Ghosts
Emily's Bridge 257
Hammond Castle 259
Dungeon Rock 261
Country Tavern Restaurant 263
Haunted Lake 265
Ghost of Charles Dickens 267
Ghost Town of Monson, NH 268
TAPS Headquarters 270
Hoosac Tunnel 272
Lady in Black 274
Creepy Plants
Roger Williams Root 277
Drowned Forest 279
Dummerston Vine 280
Famous Monsters
Witch's Dungeon 283
Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery 285
Frankenstein Cliff 287
Flying Monkeys 288
Acknowledgments 291
Index 292
