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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!


Men of Mortuaries Calendar
To purchase your 2008 calendar, learn more about the KAMMCARES Foundation, or to be featured in the 2009 calendar, please visit Men of Mortuaries.

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.
COMMUNITY CRYPT
Find links to locate online communities and media resources whose target audience have a common interest in the various topics at Taphophilia (dot) Com, Subscribe to a cemetery magazine, make new friends in the CoffinTalk forum, become a member of The_Ossuary's Yahoo group mailing list, or join your local hearse club. There are many links here to unite a morbid community! Add your link today!
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  Link   Old Bones Cemetery Discussion Group
The Old Bones Cemetery Discussion Group has been functioning since 1996. This is a wonderful informative group of researchers most concerned with the restoration and preservation of old cemeteries.
  Link   Lake Claremont Press
Lake Claremont was chosen as one of the 25 winners of "The Golden Tomb," which is awarded to cemetery photographers on the Web; Websites that include, showcase or feature cemetery photographers and/or cemetery photography; & outstanding Web design, l
  Link   Cemetery Club
Yahoo! Group discussion board. Become a member to meet people with similar interests.
  Link   Grave_L
"Grave-L is the original list for taphophiles (literally "lovers of tombstones"). It focuses primarilly on the sociological anthropological historical artistic spiritual folklore and other nonmorbid aspects of cemeteries and sepulchral
  Link   DeathLore-L
Yahoo! Group discussion board
  Link   GotBlack Forums
Gothic forum board
  Link   Dark Lil Corner
Forums led by Syana and Stix covering many dark topics
  Link   Orange County CA Taphophile Meetup
The Orange County Taphophile Meetup is for people interested in cemeteries tombstones funerary practices and equipment. We meet monthly (second Monday each month @7pm) in conjunction with the Orange County Ghost Tracking Meetup. We are a casual socia
  Link   Coffin Talk
Browse the Pushindaisies.com messageboard Coffin Talk and meet funeral directors, mortuary science students or just those with a morbid curiosity.
  Link   Death to Dust Webring
Cemetery art webring
  Link   Cemetery Dance Publications
Specialty publisher of collectible horror and suspense plus a magazine and comics series
  Link   Phantom Coaches Hearse Club
Tons of photos useful literature library greate events videos and unique items for sale. Come browse our site and see for yourself.
  Link   Horror Find Search Engine
Horror Find is the first search engine dedicated to all horror all the time. It is the ultimate source for horror and halloween with listings of sites about halloween halloween products halloween props horror horror movies werewolves vampires witches
  Link   Sleeping Cities Cemeteries
"This is a club for those who appreciate the unique charm of cemeteries.  We welcome you whether your primary interest is in history genealogy tombstone art epitaphs or folklore."
  Link   Skulls and Dead Roses Yahoo! Group
"This is a group for those who love Cemeteries Azrael The Macabre Death and Cemetery Art. The list is open to discussion on these topics as well as working with Spirits Necromancy Magic Spellwork and Halloween. For the most part we want to stick
  Link   Cemetery Photos
Yahoo! Groups discussion board
  Link   Cemetery Culture
Join this Yahoo! Group discussion board and chat by browsing the board or receiving group emails.
  Link   Hearse Driver
Funeral cars bulletin boards hearse chat and classifieds for grim ride owners and future owners...for those whose tastes run beyond the "normal" and mundane.
  Link   Burial Ground Discussion Group
Life death and afterlife: Rethinking cemeteries and burial rituals in an ecological and artistic context.
  Link   Pagan Faith
A directory and search engine for occult magick Pagan Wicca and Witchcraft related websites. Also includes information about the many aspects of Paganism.
  Link   Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers is now accepting original works for its premier issue. For guidelines on submissions deadlines classifieds or advertising visit The Cemetery Club .
  Link   Bluelips Forum-The Dead Do Talk
A place where you can come meet and ask those questions that you have always wondered about. Cemetery Lovers Funeral Directors Death Care Workers Morbidly Curious all are welcome to pose questions and share knowledge. We even offer a flame room calle
  Link   Death and Dementia
The Internet resource for all things death.
  Link   Voluptuous Death
Voluptuous Death - Sensuality revealed by the funerary sculpture in Père Lachaise Cemetery The new E-book published at the LiterNet Publishing House is a provocative invitation to meditate about life and death and much more. It is evidenc
  Link   The Club For Cemetery Buffs
Yahoo! Group mailing list and boards for cemetery lovers.
  Link   Taphophiliacs
Yahoo! Group mailing list and boards for those who have a fondness for the darker things in life? This list is not limited to cemetery chat; but rather all things dark and dreary. Music Literature Filmsetc.
 
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