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This week we welcome horror author Craig Wallwork to the JoAG fam. Corrigan tells a story of vampire panic, Craig tells us stories of hypochondria and Dracula fandom, and Marko asks some pressing vampire questions.
Highlights:
[0:00] Corrigan talks about tuberculosis and the New England Vampire Panic of the 18th and 19th centuries
[50:20] We talk about Craig’s latest book, authorial intent, hypochondria, and Marko’s pressing vampire questions
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Stuff we referenced:
- The New England Vampire Panic (State Library of Massachusetts)
- New England’s Vampire History | Legends and Hysteria (Yankee Magazine)
- Vampires and Death in New England, 1784 to 1892 (Anthropology & Humanism)
- The Strange Case of Mercy Brown & the New England Vampire Panic (Isabella Connor)
- Have Mercy (Rhode Island Historical Society)
- When New Englanders Blamed Vampires for Tuberculosis Deaths (History)
- A Halloween Mystery—Did Dracula Have Tuberculosis? (American Lung Association)
- The New England Vampire Panic (newspapers.com)
- Tuberculosis: A Fashionable Disease? (Science Museum)
- When ‘Consumption’ Came to the West (National Jewish Health)
- A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord (Concord Free Public Library)
- TB in America: 1895-1954 (PBS American Experience)
- The history of tuberculosis: from the first historical records to the isolation of Koch’s bacillus (Journal of Preventative Medicine and Hygiene)
- Lost LA: The Forgotten Plague (PBS doc)
- Tuberculosis: The White Plague (Tenement Museum)
- The Great New England Vampire Panic (Smithsonian)
