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
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
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Featured image: my personal photo from Blenheim Palace. Today over at Dirge Magazine, I show you how to properly stock
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The technologies may change, but the desire – to reach out, once more, and touch a loved one – remains
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Featured Image: “Orcus” by Julia deVille, from Taxidermy Art by Robert Marbury (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2014. Photo: Robert Marbury. Today
Gillian Flynn’s short story “The Grownup,” lauded as an “homage to the classic ghost story” and winner of the Edgar
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Firstly, this post mentions a very few graphic descriptions in reference to September 11th. If you do not wish to read
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I’ve just finished Kate Mayfield’s richly macabre bildungsroman The Undertaker’s Daughter, which centers around her upbringing as the daughter of an
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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