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In 1901, Construction of a strange, twisted structure began on the banks of the Voodoo Bayou, the creation of a psychopathic scientist, Baron Michael Verdun and his vampire wife Lady Cassandra D’Arque. The Antebellum style Manor quickly became the subject of horrifying rumors and much speculation. The new Manor adjoined an old plantation cemetery and Baron Verdun brought in foreign workers to dig the deep cellars. Wild stories circulated about Verdun exhuming the dead for more space, or perhaps some darker purpose. When the manor was finished, all the workers disappeared overnight, although some say their spirits still haunt the grounds of Verdun Manor.
A werewolf, Baron Verdun keenly desired to release the beast that lies within all men, and deep within the hidden recesses of his manor, he conducted cruel, painful experiments on human beings abducted by Lady Cassandra from the surrounding countryside. These mysterious experiments created hideous, malformed creatures. Neither wholly man nor animal Verdun considered these failures and turned them loose on the grounds to fend for themselves, devouring any unwary and unwanted visitor. Nightmarish masquerade balls were held at Verdun Manor on nights of the full moon, with human flesh served openly to the guests. Stores about Baron Verdun hosting nocturnal hunts, chasing human prey for sport caused the townsfolk to take shelter at night.
Enraged by the creatures’ attack, the townspeople eventually took to the streets. The angry mob tracked the monsters back to Verdun Manor, locking them in the Barons laboratory to die in a raging chemical fire. Cassandra, caught sleeping in her crypt, was decapitated and her body mutilated. Chased down by the vigilantes, Verdun was bludgeoned and stabbed to death and his bloody corpse laid to rest in a deep grave in front of his Manor. Gathering their injured, and their dead, the townsfolk tried to forget the horrors they had seen that night, but the creatures like Baron Verdun and Lady Cassandra, death is more of an inconvenience than and ending.
A year later the mansion and surrounding grounds were sold to a local wealthy landowner, Vincent Carruthers. He made no mention of the house’s terrible past to his family. After all Verdun was dead and the town wanted to forget everything.
On October 31st, under the eerie light of the full moon, the Carruthers and his family were hosting a gala ball in their new home. Little did they realize that Verdun and his vampiric bride were still more alive than dead. They clawed their way out of their graves and burst into the mansion killing Carruthers, his family and all the dinner guests in the most brutal fashion.
Verdun placed the bodies of the Carruthers Family and their guests throughout the house in grotesque scenes of the macabre as a final insult to their memories. He quickly began new experiments and resurrected his past failed attempts. Soon the grounds of Verdun Mansion and the Voodoo Bayou were once again haunted by the dead, undead, and creatures more beast than man.
