America's most gothic: haunted history stranger than fiction

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"We often think of the enduring tropes of the Gothic in terms of fiction and film: breath-catching escapes that tap into our fears, anxieties, forbidden desires, and unsettling dreams. But what if some of these chilly vibes are rooted in the experiences of real and tragic people who danced a macabre waltz with love and death? That's why we're here. Take the case of teenage Mercy Brown, victim--or was it predator?--of Rhode Island's vampire hysteria of the 1890s. Marguerite de la Roque, a French noblewoman condemned for 'sexual crimes' to Canada's long-lost Isle of Demons. What happened to her and the barren landscape itself is the stuff of legend. And 'Mad Lucy' Ludwell, the decidedly peculiar eighteenth-century high-society hauteur driven mad in the Virginia estate she prowls to this day. President Helen Peabody's spirit still stringently watches over her Women's College, now part of Ohio's Miami University. Ghosts of workers lost in horrific conditions while building the Hoosac Tunnel warn of imminent danger. Settle in. There are more"--
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Arts, Gothic -- History
Ghosts -- Canada
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History
Gothic revival (Literature) -- History
Haunted places -- Canada
Haunted places -- United States
Women -- Canada -- Biography
Women -- United States -- Biography
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America's most gothic : haunted history stranger than fiction / Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes
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America's most gothic
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Gothic revival (Literature)
Haunted places
History
Women

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