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Cemetery Stories (Paperback)
$11.07 - Save $1.94 (14%) - RRP $13.01 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Cemetery StoriesFrom the moment a hearse gets called to embalmings to putting bodies in the ground, this book gathers funny, strange and often disturbing tales from cemeteries, and other places of the dead, all over the world.
Full description- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Published: 16 November 2001
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Society & Culture: General | Sociology: Death & Dying | Mysticism, Magic & Ritual
- ISBN 13: 9780060185183 ISBN 10: 006018518X
- Sales rank: 480,453
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Full description for Cemetery Stories
Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them?Enter the world of the dead as Katherine Ramsland talks to mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and more, and find out about: Stitching and cosmetic secrets used on mutilated bodiesEmbalmers who do more than just embalmThe rising popularity of cremation artGhosts that infest graveyards everywhere If you've ever scoffed at the high price of burying the dead, or ever wondered how your loved ones are handled when they die, or simply stared at tombstones with morbid fascination, then take a trip with Katherine Ramsland and learn about the booming industry -- and strange tales -- that surround cemeteries everywhere.
