Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
Jul 2011 · Harper Collins
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An insider’s tour of cemetery culture—from embalming to epitaphs, restless ghosts, crimes against the dead, and more.
Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of the dead as author Katherine Ramsland talks to mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and others, and find out about:
If you've ever scoffed at the high price of burying the dead, wondered how your loved ones are handled when they die, or simply stared at tombstones with morbid fascination, then let Katherine Ramsland introduce the booming industry—and strange tales—that surround cemeteries everywhere.
Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of the dead as author Katherine Ramsland talks to mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and others, and find out about:
- Stitching and cosmetic secrets used on mutilated bodies
- Embalmers who do more than just embalm
- The rising popularity of cremation art
- Ghosts that infest graveyards everywhere
If you've ever scoffed at the high price of burying the dead, wondered how your loved ones are handled when they die, or simply stared at tombstones with morbid fascination, then let Katherine Ramsland introduce the booming industry—and strange tales—that surround cemeteries everywhere.
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4.4
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Sarah Nabalta
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February 3, 2022
decent book... had some interesting information. I did find myself looking at find a grave to see some of the stories that were mentioned. I found this about the Damian story on find a grave. This grave belongs to Mr. George Damian, who was born in Selagi, Romania in 1867. He immigrated to the United States in 1918. During the last three years of his life he and his wife Percida lived in Lake Bluff, Illinois. For the 10 previous years, Mr. Damian was employed as an estate gardener, last having worked in Lake Forest, Illinois. Mr. Damian passed away on November 22, 1932 after battling stomach cancer. Memorial Cross Marker destroyed by vandals on August 14, 2002
D Lo
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December 7, 2016
I thought the book was going to be strictly "ghost stories", but it was more than what I expected. The book did talk about ghost stories, but it also gave an interesting insight about death from many angles. You will learn about mortuary services and stories, stories of the Salem witch trials, and much more. I highly recommend this book.
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August 29, 2024
book very well written, much more interesting than expected
About the author
Katherine Ramsland has written a dozen books and numerous articles and short stories. In the past year she has been editing Vampyre Magazine. After publishing two books in psychology, Engaging the Immediate and The Art of Learning, she wrote Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice. At the same time she had a cover story in Psychology Today on our culture's fascination with vampires. She followed the biography with several guide books to Anne Rice's fictional worlds including The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and The Anne Rice Reader. Her last book before Piercing the Darkness was a biography of Dean Koontz called Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, The Writer, The Horror Show, The Newark Star Ledger, The Trenton Times, and Publishers Weekly. Ramsland has a master's degree in clinical psychology and a Ph.D. in philosophy. She has been a professor at Rutgers University, a therapist, and a psycho-educator specializing in the psyche's shadow side, and is currently at work on another master's degree--this one in forensic psychology. She lives in Princeton, NJ.
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