Recently a friend asked me if I knew much about vampire history in New York. I didn’t. Mostly because there isn’t much from a historic perspective, the closest is the New England Vampire Panic . The Panic that hit the United States in the 1730s was largely a response to tuberculosis and normal human decay. But neither of those topics were broadly, or scientifically understood enough at the time. The fun fact is that Bram Stoker took more from the New England Vampire Panic and