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The truth behind the legend of New Orleans's infamous slave owner, madwoman, and murderess, portrayed in the anthology series, American Horror Story. On April 10, 1834, firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning Royal Street mansion of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. In the billowing smoke and flames they made an appalling discovery: the remains of Madame Lalaurie's chained, starved, and mutilated slaves. This house of horrors in the French Quarter spawned a legend that has endured for more than one-hundred-and-fifty years. But what actually happened in the Lalaurie home? Rumors about her atrocities spread as fast as the fire. But verifiable facts were scarce. Lalaurie wouldn't answer questions. She disappeared, leaving behind one of the French Quarter's ghastliest crime scenes, and what is considered to be one of America's most haunted houses.

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Tiffany Morgan is a film and television actress who has starred in The Mist, Green Lantern, and The Joneses, as well as television's The Vampire Diaries and Nashville. Victoria Cosner Love has been involved with museums and historic sites for over thirty years. She holds a master's degree in American studies, specializing in cemetery landscapes and is a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies. She is coauthor, with Lorelei Shannon, of Mad Madame LaLaurie and Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell. Lorelei Shannon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, sculptor, and computer game designer. She is the author of numerous short stories and novels, inlcuding Possom Kingdom and Mad Madame LaLaurie coauthored with Victoria Cosner Love.

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