By the author of the acclaimed
Eat Dat
, a brand-new guide to New Orleans's scary side, from Voodoo rituals to historic cemeteries and haunted mansions
Fear Dat New Orleans
explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America’s most unique city. In addition to detailed histories of bizarre burials, ghastly murders, and the greatest concentration of haunted places in America,
Fear Dat
features a “bone watcher’s guide” with useful directions of who’s buried where, from Marie Laveau to Ruthie the Duck Girl. You’ll also find where to buy the most authentic gris-gris or to get the best psychic reading.
The Huffington Post
tagged Michael Murphy’s first book
, about the city’s food culture, the #1 “essential” book to read before coming to New Orleans.
New Orleans Living
called it “both reverent and irreverent, he manages to bring a sense of humor to serious eating—and that’s what New Orleans is all about.” In
, Murphy brings similar insights and irreverence to New Orleans voodoo, vampires, graveyards, and ghosts.