Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets and the Life of a Corpse After Death - Brossura

Ramsland, Katherine M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 006018518X ISBN 13: 9780060185183

Casa editrice: Dey Street Books, 2001

Riassunto

An anecdotal look at funeral customs and cemeteries includes stories about embalmers who have sex with the corpses they work on, forensics testing practices performed at The Body Farm, the craft of the undertaker, a cemetery established by slaves freed by the Underground Railroad, and the Illinois burial site of the son of Satan. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Katherine Ramsland has written a dozen books and numerous articles and short stories. In the past year she has been editing Vampyre Magazine. After publishing two books in psychology, Engaging the Immediate and The Art of Learning, she wrote Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice. At the same time she had a cover story in Psychology Today on our culture's fascination with vampires. She followed the biography with several guide books to Anne Rice's fictional worlds including The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and The Anne Rice Reader. Her last book before Piercing the Darkness was a biography of Dean Koontz called Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, The Writer, The Horror Show, The Newark Star Ledger, The Trenton Times, and Publishers Weekly. Ramsland has a master's degree in clinical psychology and a Ph.D. in philosophy. She has been a professor at Rutgers University, a therapist, and a psycho-educator specializing in the psyche's shadow side, and is currently at work on another master's degree--this one in forensic psychology. She lives in Princeton, NJ.

Product Description:

From 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.

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• Editore: Dey Street Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 006018518X
• ISBN 13: 9780060185183
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 234