cemeteries

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Dying to know-- about death, funeral customs, and final resting places

2001
Examines the funeral customs of cultures and religions throughout history, explaining what happens to the corpse during cremation and after burial; discusses the development of graveyards; and looks at the practice of adorning graves with headstones and messages.

Pet sematary

1983
A horror story of a children's pet semetary and another graveyard behind it from which the dead return.

The widow of the south

2005
Presents an historical fiction based upon the true story of Carrie McGavock, who spent the years following the Civil War caring for the graves of over fifteen hundred soldiers from the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, who were buried on designated ground in her back yard.

Creepers

2008
Thirteen-year-old Courtney, trying to adjust to life in Murmur, Massachusetts, meets a father and daughter and joins them in trying to locate the remains of one of their family members whose body has disappeared from the cemetery behind Courtney's house.

A graveyard for lunatics

another tale of two cities
2001
A sci-fi film writer discovers a body frozen in time and poised to climb from the city of the dead to the city of light.

Potter's Field

2009
In the New York City area, a mysterious man known only as "John Doe" works tirelessly with a disjointed network of informants to solve the mysterious deaths of and put names to the thousands of people the police department gives up on and buries in unmarked graves every year, but nobody knows what really motivates him.

Paris catacombs

2014
Explores the Paris catacombs, or underground tombs, and their history.

The body snatcher

1998
In 1815 in Scotland, having realized that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are stolen from fresh graves, a young medical student finds that he must procure the next specimen.

Mount Hope

America's first municipal victorian cemetery
1995

The graveyard book

2011
The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.

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