New Orleans is one of the world’s great cities for horror. It’s the kind of place I can tell I’d love without ever having visited it myself. It’s also, if the countless documentaries I’ve seen on the Discovery/History/A&E/Travel/SciFi channels are any indication, one of the most heavily haunted places in America. My deepest wish right now is that it get no more heavily haunted than normal by day’s end tomorrow. Please stay safe, everybody. (Especially my friends Josiah and Rose–I’m thinking of you.)
As a small salute to this wonderful town, here are a few links to some of NO’s horror notables. Keep all of them–living or dead–in your thoughts tonight.
Haunted New Orleans (lots of linked articles)
“The New Orleans Axeman”–unsolved serial killings (at CrimeLibrary.com)
“Queen of Voodoo” Marie Laveau Wikipedia entry
New Orleans Voodoo information page
New Orleans haunted houses (with pictures)
“Cities of the Dead”–New Orleans cemeteries