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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

Morbid Curiosity quietly expires with final issue PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 21 June 2006
Washington Post
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

America's morbidly curious community is in mourning: Morbid Curiosity magazine has published its final issue.
Morbid Curiosity, founded in 1997, was frequently gross, disgusting, perverse -- and very funny if you prefer your humor in a decidedly dark hue. It was not for the squeamish, which is probably why its circulation hovered around 3,000.

Founder Loren Rhoads, 42, is a San Francisco writer of horror fiction and essays about her hobby, which is visiting graveyards.

Over the years, the magazine published accounts of giving birth, buying a gun, having an operation, getting mugged, getting busted, getting abducted by aliens, cross-dressing, visiting mom in the insane asylum, attempting suicide, kicking heroin, drinking blood and committing necrophilia.

Rhoads had no way to check their accuracy. All she could do was limit the financial incentive for fabrication by paying nothing and publishing the ones she liked best.

"It really does amaze me the things people will admit to doing," she said. "People will admit to the strangest things."

"It was fun while it lasted," she said in a phone interview. "But I have other projects."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/21/DDGJ6JH0JS1.DTL

 
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