Wisconsin Death Trip plot
Wisconsin Death Trip is set in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The story is made up entirely of stories from the local newspaper of Black River Falls. This northern Wisconsin town was home to an apparently respectable community of hardworking Protestant merchants and farmers, most of whom had recently emigrated from Germany and Scandinavia. The news in the 1990s, however, is dominated by bizarre stories of madness, eccentricity and despair among the local population. Suicide and murder are commonplace. People in the village are haunted by ghosts and terrorized by pyromaniacs and outlaws.