Showing Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House by Carolyn Morrow Long

Inside the “Most Haunted†House in New Orleans“Explores a pivotal event in a city that drips legends from every pore. In the end, Long reminds us that history has just one indisputable a?truthâ€TMa??the past was a complex world whose deeds continue to haunt us.â€a??Elizabeth Shown Mills, author of Isle of Canes“A page-turner. History, folklore, mytha??this book has it all, like almost everything in New Orleans.â€a??Nathalie Dessens, author of From Saint-Domingue to New OrleansThe legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron, has haunted the city of New Orleans for nearly two hundred years.A A A A A When fire destroyed part of her home in 1834, the public was outraged to learn that behind closed doors Lalaurie routinely bound, starved, and tortured her slaves. Forced to flee the city, her guilt was unquestioned, and tales of her actions have become increasingly fanciful and grotesque over the decades. Even today, the Lalaurie house is described as the cityâ€TMs “most hauntedâ€...