The Rise of the Cities of the Dead
A brief history of churchyards, cemeteries, and the ghosts that haunt them.
A brief history of churchyards, cemeteries, and the ghosts that haunt them.
Colin Dickey Literary Hub Oct 2016 20min Permalink
Cemetery field recordings reveal terrifying audio messages.
"One night, listening back, she heard the crunch of shovelling. Nothing to worry about, the priest said. Simply gravediggers. She had not realised the cemetery still bore room for fresh dead; she imagined dough cut to the shape of the cemetery and a coffin-shaped cookie cutter pressed into it to calibrate the number of remaining graves."
Stuart Snelson Wyvern Lit Oct 2014 Permalink