Vivisepulture: the Art of Being Buried Alive
There are three reasons people are typically buried alive. The first is a tragic accident: a person who seems to […]
I Got That Dog In Me: Pet Cemeteries
I love when the private home of a very rich person finally passes out of the cycle of inheritance and
Bring Out Your Dead: Exhumation and Reburial
The last English monarch to be killed in battle was Richard III, end of the Plantagenets, killed in 1485 at
Give It Away Now: Organ Donation
My dear friend Charlie died by suicide when he was just 18 years old. He was not the first person
Dead Men Tell Some Tales: Stories with Deceased Narrators
Every writer lives with the same terrible knowledge: that we’d better get these stories out while we can, because death
Death Is a Foreigner: Nosferatu (2024)
“I am an appetite, nothing more.” —Count Orlok Much ink (and other various fluid) has been spilled over the meaning
The Unloved Dead
In the oldest human stories, the question always arises: who will bury my body? Who will lay me to rest?
Six Sexy Specters of Cinema
Ghosts on screen are meant to make us moan with terror or mourn in torment, but sometimes it’s a little
5 Great Eulogies in Film
The only way to give a good eulogy is to really have known the dead. There’s not a set rhythm
Everything We Know About Constantine 2
You ever wake to see an internet rumor that you hope beyond hope will be true? That’s how I felt,