title: Spirits of New Orleans: Voodoo Curses, Vampire Legends and Cities of the Dead (America's Haunted Road Trip)
author:  Kala Ambrose 
description: "Ambrose takes hold of readers from the first page, blending history and legend together seamlessly as she leads them through the plentiful spiritual landscape that is New Orleans. If you only read one book about the supernatural this fall, make it this one." - Chic Darling
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  ## PROLOGUE
  
  
  _February 16, 2004_
  
  
  _New Orleans_
  
  
  
  
  
  **E** ric swallowed the last of his beer and then set the empty bottle on the
  sidewalk. _Not my_ _fault there isn’t a trash can nearby_ , he thought,
  ignoring the glare the tour guide gave him. The brunette off to his right
  didn’t seem to mind. She smiled at him in a way that made him glad he’d blown
  off his buddies to take this stupid haunted tour.
  
  
  
  
  
  “… in front of us is the LaLaurie house,” the guide went on, gesturing to the
  big gray structure on the corner of Royal Street. “This is reputedly one of
  the most haunted places in the French Quarter. Here, in the mid–eighteen
  hundreds, an untold number of slaves were tortured and murdered by Dr. Louis
  LaLaurie and his wife, Delphine…” Eric sidled closer to the hot brunette, who
  didn’t seem to be paying any more attention to the guide than he was. She was
  thin, the way he liked ’em, and though her tits weren’t big, she 