Lewis Peck of Exeter, R.I., visits the grave of his relative, accused vampire Mercy Brown. In 1892, Mercy's body was exhumed here and her heart burned on a stone that still can be seen nearby. The whole story, and many other southern New England vampire accounts, is in New River Press's "Faces at the Window" by Paul F. Eno. Notice that the pious epitaph, common on New England gravestones, has been cleanly effaced from Mercy Brown's.
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