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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Middlemarch
At Home in Her Tomb: Lady Dai and the Ancient Chinese Treasures of Mawangdui
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
The Alexander Cipher (Daniel Knox, #1)
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The Octopus: A Story of California
Faust
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy
Psalms and Sorceries
The Jewel of Seven Stars
...And Ladies of the Club
Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Greg RozaDeath Rituals by Sarah MachajewskiCrypts and Tombs by Therese SheaFamous Graveyards by Kristen RajczakPreserving the Dead by Ryan Nagelhout
Digging Up the Dead
6 books — 1 voter
The Casquette Girls by Alys ArdenMina and the Undead by Amy McCawThe Beautiful by Renée AhdiehRuined by Paula MorrisLocked In Time by Lois Duncan
Paranormal YA set in Louisiana
64 books — 69 voters

The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanHer Fearful Symmetry by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Dead Kid Detective Agency by Evan MundayFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierMidnight In the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Cemetery Settings
15 books — 4 voters
Scenes from Prehistoric Life by Francis PryorHengeworld by Mike PittsHow to Build Stonehenge by Mike PittsStonehenge by Francis PryorAncient Stones by Salvatore Piccolo
Megaliths and Their Kindred
38 books — 2 voters


Israelmore Ayivor
Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.
Israelmore Ayivor

K.J. Bishop
Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as one cannot grow except by having one’s spirit greatly stirred; and the spirit cannot be greatly stirred by spiritless things. Much of our very life is dead. For primitive man, this was not so. He made his own possessions, and shaped and decorated them with the aim of making them ...more
K.J. Bishop, The Etched City

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