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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.
ENTERTAINMENT
Test your skills with Funeral Quest, browse dark artistic creations, take a quiz to see how much your harvested organs are worth, or see the latest Butch the Serial Killer cartoon...Links with a truly morbid flair!
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  Link   Cemetery Quiz
WHAT IN A CEMETERY ARE YOU?
  Link   GothCard
Ecards using graveyard images
  Link   Cold Marble Cards
Customize cemetery scenes and email your greeting cards to friends!
  Link   The Spark's Death Test
A "when are you going to die" quiz
  Link   Nim Skulls
Play the ancient game of Nim this version uses SKULLS!
  Link   Who were you in your past life?
Your past life diagnosis
  Link   The Death Clock
How much time do you REALLY have left??
  Link   Day 4 Death
Is is time for you to go? Use the Death Day Calculator to find out!
  Link   Creepy Crossword
Solve the creepy puzzle!
  Link   Funeral Quest
Multiplayer game where you take charge of a funeral home. Build your business while competing against some stiff competition.
  Link   Cinemorgue
Listing of actors and actresses and information about corpses they played.
  Link   Sinister Visions
Sinister Visions is a design studio with a penchant for spooky subject matter and dark design. It is also the work (primarily) of one man: Chad Savage award-winning dark artist and professional dilett
  Link   Back Door To The Morgue
"you can send out virtual postcards using my postmortem photograph collection as the cards along with music and your own personal message."
  Link   Tomb With A View
Online "quarterly newsletter for cemetery friends fans and followers"
  Link   Bloody Mary's New Orleans Tours
"From the French Quarter to the Garden District or deep into the swamps and bayous explore the haunted history of New Orleans with the expert historians and famous Tour company of the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum where all the underground
  Link   Dark Darling Cards
"Design your own Dark Greeting Card and Send it to a friend on the Net. "...using cemetery and memento mori photos...WAY COOL!
  Link   Grolsch Grip Reaper Golf
Play a game of golf against the Grim Reaper!
  Link   Six Feet Under
Coffin Toss Game!
  Link   Graveyard
Cemetery flash game
  Link   Grave Robber
"Dig up graves in the graveyard cemetary but avoid the zombies coming out of the tombs."
  Link   Contemplating REIKO
For those with a twisted sense of humor "Contemplating REIKO" is an online comic strip showcasing the weird and often sadistic exploits a wicked little elf girl. Cute funny and EVIL.
  Link   Dark Necropolis
Dark stories poetry and cemeteries :)
  Link   The Gothic Literature Page - Graveyard Poetry
The English Gothic Novel 1764 to 1834
  Link   Cemgineer Home Page
Light hearted view from 32 years of digging through cemeteries.