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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!

Green-Wood Cemetery Arcadia Publishing announces the release of Alexandra Mosca's 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 and to browse other available titles!

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, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman 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.

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Lewiston, ID Project Updates PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Jenifer Junior High School and Lewiston High School's Project Update
Project Director: Steven D. Branting, Gifted & Innovative Programs, Independent School District No. 1

5th Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study: Embalming Arsenic & Soil Leaching Survey at Pioneer Park

http://www.lewiston.k12.id.us/staff/sbranting/5thcem/5thcem.htm

Project Prospectus: (Adobe Reader required) http://www.lewiston.k12.id.us/staff/sbranting/5thcem/Proposal.pdf

 
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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophilia Facts

In Ghana's Akan culture, "fantasy coffins" have been fashioned in the shapes of chickens, Mercedes and outboard motors.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die.

H.P. Lovecraft Quoting the

Grave Epigrams

This grave contains all that was
mortal of a young English poet who
on his death bed in the bitterness of
his heart as the malicious power
of his enemies desired these words
to be engraven on his tombstone:
"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water"

John Keats

 

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Taphophilia (dot) Com would not be possible without the knowledge, experience and talent of DarkestWeb. From
its conception and early development, DarkestWeb
was faced with many challenges; from inspiring and motivating, to providing guidance and direction. The continued dedication and support has produced results greater than ever expected, and for this, I owe a huge debt of gratitude.