The Book I Would Like to Be Buried With

Dear Living Dark reader,

Some years ago—fourteen, to be exact—I was one of several horror writers who were invited to contribute a post to the blog Horror Reanimated for a series titled “The Book I Would Like to Be Buried With.” The theme was clear: What book do you love so much, what book feels like such an inseparable part of you, that when your time eventually comes, you’d like to take it with you to the grave?1

This decade and a half later, when I reread what I wrote for that series, I realize...