Cemetery Walk: Journey into the Art, History and Society of the Cemetery and Beyond

by Minda Powers-Douglas

What awaits beyond the cemetery gates ...? Journey into the cemetery and beyond with author Minda Powers-Douglas and meet cemetery sextons, gravediggers, preservationists, writers, artists, authors, ghost hunters, the director of a funeral museum, a genealogist, and an assortment of taphophiles (people who love cemeteries). Discover what's really behind our attitudes toward death, graveyards and those resting inside them. Find out what is superstition and what's fact in this insightful and often funny guide into the world of cemeteries. You'll meet British horror author Simon Clark, "low-brow" artist Madame Talbot, genealogy author and lecturer Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, Jon Austin from the Museum of Funeral Customs, and New Orleans Voodoo Priestess Miriam, as well as many more intriguing individuals. Come explore the dark side ... it's not as scary as you think. You'll never look at a cemetery the same way again.

Genres: Death, Nonfiction

448 pages, Paperback

First published September 21, 2005

Reviews

[Minda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! Then again, I wrote it. :-)

I hope you enjoy it, too.

[Briony]

I dropped this one after reading a few chapters and skimming through the rest. Although packed with a lot of information,the book tended to go off in tangents. I further got disconnected from the writing when the author continuously putting herself in the text. It disrupted the flow of the information.

[Kaitlyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was interesting and I really enjoyed Powers-Douglas's personality evident in her writing. However, I was hoping for some more research and academic information to use in my own research paper. But even though it didn't have a lot of that, I enjoyed the book.

[Lenora Carey]

At first I liked this book very much. Toward the end it seemed to drag. There is a lot of good information on cemeteries in this book. I am a cemetery lover and genealogist. Other subjects in the book did not interest me, goth,supernatural. I did enjoy reading the chapter on death.

[Beverly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Crappy. poorly written & not at all what it was purported to be.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very very facinating and informative book. Covers a wide variety of topics about the history of cemeteries without anything thats TMI/ too graphic.

[Cemetery Trekker · Rating 1 out of 5]

Self-published and self-indulgent! Save your money.

[Connie Fairchild]

Interesting mix of cemetery related articles.