One-stop shopping for all your vampire needs
If you are into vampires, or really think you are a vampire, you’ve come to the right city. New Orleans has a long history of vampires and openly embraces this most alternative of alternative lifestyles. There is a vampire bar, the Dungeon (738 Toulouse Street), where the dance floor is a mirror, which presumably does not reflect a number of the patrons. NOVA (The New Orleans Vampire Association) is a nonprofit association dedicated to the support and promotion for people who identify themselves as vampires. At Halloween each year, there are three vampire balls. The city even hosts a vampire convention, the Undead Con, featuring vampire novelists and artisans.
And then there is the Boutique du Vampyre—the only brick-and-mortar vampire shop in America, and one of just three in the world. Marita Jaeger, who cheekily claims to be a vampire herself, created and runs the store. She is another in a long line of visitors who was seduced by New Orleans and never left. Her shop is filled with handmade treasures crafted by 130 local artisans. Maven Lore, a renowned local fangsmith (one who makes fangs), will even meet you at the shop by appointment and make you a custom set of fangs, color matched to your teeth—the prices range from $100 to $800.
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Address 709 1/2 St. Ann Street, New Orleans, LA 70116, +1 504.561.8267, www.feelthebite.com | Hours Daily 10am–9pm| Tip Clinton, LA, the setting for the fictional town of Bon Temps on HBO’s vampire series True Blood, is just an hour and forty-five minutes’ drive from New Orleans. The show employed more than 50 local residents as characters and extras. Years ago, Clinton was also the setting for the popular series The Dukes of Hazzard.
Here you can buy candles; pewter charms; vampire perfume by Hove, a 100-year-old perfumer on Chartres Street; hot sauce made in Transylvania, Louisiana; museum-quality shrunken heads from Ecuador; steampunk skulls; and the ever-popular vampire lesson box, which includes a welcome letter, votive candle, sealing wax, and instructions and advice from centuries-old vampires. The shop also sells temporary bite-mark tattoos, emergency stake wall units (just break glass), and vampire spirits that have been trapped and sealed in bottles. In other words, pretty much everything an actual or aspiring vampire might want to consume, from A positive to O.
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