Hey, folks erin here. When I think about the listeners who love my deep dive shows, unobscured and grim and mild presents, I think of people who really love to take their time, people who love the little details and digging just a little farther into the soil to find the bigger story. For years, you let me do that on this show, taking you on a multi episode journey on a big, major topic. From the Salem witch Trials and the fascinating world of sideshow performers to Jack the
Ripper and pirate lore. You have been supportive, encouraging, and dare I say, hungry for more good historical knowledge. So what do you say we do it again? I've put together a massive exploration of a topic that I dearly, dearly love, one that goes all the way back to the beginning of lore and then ties in a ton of ideas and stories that I've learned along the way.
It's about Mercy Brown, the young woman at the center of the New England vampire panic, and how her community got to the point where they felt it was okay to exume her corpse, cut out her heart, and use its ashes as medicine for her dying brother. You know, normal stuff, right. The result is a brand new book called Exhumed, and the best way to think of it is this. Where Unobscured or Grim and Mild Presents typically spent about ten episodes on a single topic, Exhumed is
twice that length. In hardcover and ebook, that's twenty whole chapters. But in the audiobook version narrated by me, of course, you can think of it as twenty episodes. Now. Granted, it is not a podcast, but it is the beginning of a new adventure for us, all because you'll be able to buy it once ad free and soak it in at your own pace. Plus being in bookstores around the country, it means we've got a chance to grow our community of fans of weird history, and that's never
a bad thing. Exzoomed officially arrives on August fourth, but you can pre order it right now. To make that process easy, I set up a web page which I will link to in the description for this ep episode. It's Aaronmankey dot com slash Exhumed, and it will have
two special links along with the gorgeous cover art. One link will help you find a store to pre order your copy in whatever format you want, and if you buy the hardcover, the second link is where you can submit your receipts and get a free Exhumed tote bag.
There will, of course be a book tour, and while I can't travel to every place on my wish list, I do hope to see many of you on the road this August, and if you're in the Boston area, follow my social accounts for a very fun announcement regarding the release day. Folks, your support is so incredibly important to me. You are my people and I wrote this
book for you. So if you're able, please pre order your copy of Ezoom today, Tell your friends, share the news with other history lovers in your life, and let's make this release a huge success. Again, that's Aaronmankey dot com slash Exhumed. Thanks folks, and as always, stay spooky.