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Stories Set in New Orleans
Second lines, Storyville ghosts, vampire theatres and levee breaches — New Orleans lives between celebration and elegy. These ten span Rice to Treme; filter the city's stories by era on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 225 books, 186 movies, 9 TV shows and 25 games set in New Orleans.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man like any of…

The Princess and the Frog
A waitress desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Interview with the Vampire
A vampire relates his epic life story of love betrayal loneliness and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

The Originals
A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries and set in New Orleans, The Originals centers on the Mikaelson siblings, otherwise known as the world's original vampires: Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Now Klaus must take down his…

Focus
Nicky an accomplished con artist gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

JFK
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Déjà Vu
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting…

A Streetcar Named Desire
A fading southern belle tries to build a new life with her sister in New Orleans.

Renfield
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.

Angel Heart
Down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered by the mysterious Louis Cyphre to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as he goes on a supernatural…
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