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Books : Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After DeathIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.05 You Save: $1.95 (15%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 393.10973 EAN: 9780060185183 ISBN: 006018518X Label: Harper Paperbacks Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: October 01, 2001 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Release Date: October 02, 2001 Studio: Harper Paperbacks Sales Rank: 252540 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of the dead as Katherine Ramsland talks to mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and more, and find out about:
If you've ever scoffed at the high price of burying the dead, or ever wondered how your loved ones are handled when they die, or simply stared at tombstones with morbid fascination, then take a trip with Katherine Ramsland and learn about the booming industry -- and strange tales -- that surround cemeteries everywhere. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Take this book for what it is and then you will enjoy itCemetery Stories definitely will not appeal to all interested in the subject matter at hand. It broadly dips into a range of topics, from ceremonies, corpse preparation, cremation, coffins, burials, ghosts etc (even necrophilia). So whilst you may learn a few facts along the way, if you want in-depth information on any of those topics then look to more specialised books. The appeal here is the "strange tales". Ramsland asks those in the industry for weird or shocking tales and that ... Read More Rating: - cemetery storiesI enjoyed reading this book, and to me the best part were the websites listed in the back. Interesting.. Rating: - Review of Cemetery StoriesIt is interesting to read, however it did not have any pictures. National Geographic's television show called "Tabo" showed the body farm in Knoxville, TN in detail and how research there is help us to learn more about crime scene investigation. Some was described in this book. Also some of the crime investigation stories as seen on HBO, with Dr. Michael Baden are described. Some of characters for the movies "Pyscho" and "Texas Chainsaw" are described in reality. The book also talks about necrophilia, ... Read More Rating:  - Great idea, but that's all...Katherine Ramsland has written about death, darkness, and the unknown before. She has, among other things, written biographies about Dean Koontz and the "queen of vampires" Anne Rice, investigated ghost phenomena, and produced a thorough exposé of the secret vampire scene in New York. In other words; Ramsland is no beginner. She's a skilled writer, she's proven this again and again, however, Cemetery Stories is a low-water mark in her career. It's simply not a very good book. Still, ... Read More Rating: - Great idea, but that's all...Katherine Ramsland has written about death, darkness, and the unknown before. She has, among other things, written biographies about Dean Koontz and the "queen of vampires" Anne Rice, investigated ghost phenomena, and produced a thorough exposé of the secret vampire scene in New York. In other words; Ramsland is no beginner. She's a skilled writer, she's proven this again and again, however, Cemetery Stories is a low-water mark in her career. It's simply not a very good book. Still, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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