reading – Patricia Lundy

Burial, Graverobbing, and Lilliet Berne: The Themes of Death and Mourning in The Queen of the Night

I am about a quarter of the way through Alexander Chee’s new epic, The Queen of the Night, a novel

Photo: 2013, unnamed cemetery outside of Oxfordshire, U.K. This week I began reading The Work of the Dead by Thomas

Featured image: my personal photo from Blenheim Palace. Today over at Dirge Magazine, I show you how to properly stock

The technologies may change, but the desire – to reach out, once more, and touch a loved one – remains

Gillian Flynn’s short story “The Grownup,” lauded as an “homage to the classic ghost story” and winner of the Edgar

Firstly, this post mentions a very few graphic descriptions in reference to September 11th. If you do not wish to read

I’ve just finished Kate Mayfield’s richly macabre bildungsroman The Undertaker’s Daughter, which centers around her upbringing as the daughter of an

I am sorry to say I am not well-versed in the Sherlock canon, having only read The Hound of the

‘We have found some bones,’ said his wife, with a puzzled air. ‘Small, white bones, it would seem, of some