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Easy when I die. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome. I hope you're packed and ready,

because this week we're headed back on the road. The next stop on our tour of American horrors

might be the smallest state in size, but what it lacks in landmass, it makes up for in frights.

Not only is Rhode Island the birthplace of one of the most notable names in horror fiction, H.P. Lovecraft,

it's home to a host of other literary and cinematic legends of horror, too.

Take the Biltmore Hotel in Providence, for example,

said to be one of the most haunted places in the state,

and also rumored to have either influenced or inspired

both Robert Bloch's Bates Motel and Stephen King's Overlook Hotel from The Shining. Originally financed by a Satanist

named Johann Weisskopf, it's said to have been constructed with satanic rituals in mind,

a chicken coop on the roof to hold sacrifices and ritual rooms in the basement, complete with

sacrificial altars.

Later, during Prohibition, it was home to any number of illicit dealings in mob murders.

Add to that a few suicides, and you've got one hotel, with no lack of permanent residence.

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