An Epilogue For Mercy Brown

The Last American Vampire may not have been the Last American Vampire

Toothpickings
1 min readMay 12, 2020

You may have heard of Mercy Brown and the feast made out of her. She’s usually portrayed as the dessert in America’s long vampire scare; but turns out there may have been some after-dinner mints served years later.

Here’s an older blog on the appetizing nature of vampire hunts in New England and elsewhere. It’s funnier than the video — in fact, you should stop watching this video and read this instead: https://medium.com/@toothpickings/lets-eat-corpses-e81d1b43039f

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Investigating the Western fascination with vampires, one dad joke at a time.

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