The Undertaking, Tales from the Dismal Trade.
Thomas Lynch
The American poet, Thomas Lynch, is also hired to bury the dead, to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open and his ears tuned to the vernacular sound of love and grief.

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Permanent Italians : An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Italy
Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall / Paperback / Published 1996

Permanent Londoners : Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of London
Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall / Paperback / Published 1991

Permanent Parisians : An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris
Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall / Paperback / Published 1991

 London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide & Gazetteer
Hugh Meller

This work records the cemeteries of London, describing their rich variety of buildings, monuments, epitaphs and flora and fauna. It also deals with cemetery history, planning, architecture and natural history. Altogether, 103 cemeteries are covered, along with the famous people buried there.

Going Out in Style : The Architecture of Eternity
Douglas Keister, Xavier Cronin

Depicts the endless variety of mausoleum styles in cemeteries across the United States...the book features dozens of full-color photographs portraying the majesty and mystique of the private mausoleum

Saving Graces : Images of Women European Cemeteries
David Robinson
In many cemeteries, particularly in Europe, one can find 19th-century sculptures of idealized images of women, elaborately posed and sculpted with great care and artistic flair. David Robinson's photographs capture the sensual beauty and mystery of these lifelike sculptures. In her foreword, Joyce Carol Oates explores the many implications of the grief-stricken, extremely provocative female figures - the obsession with mortality, the rituals of mourning, the conflation of death and the erotic, and the perfect female form as a male fantasy and a symbol of status.

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Beautiful Death : Art of the Cemetery
David Robinson, Dean R. Koontz / Hardcover / Published 1996
Intriguing look at death - and the way people attempt to come to terms with it in funerary monuments and graveside gestures. Robinson roamed the cemeteries of Europe, including Pere-Lachaise, Montparnasse and Montmartre in Paris, the cemete ries of London and village churchyards in England, the Jewish Cemetery in Prague, and cemeteries across France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy
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 The Tombstone Tourist : Musicians
Scott Stanton / Paperback / Published 1998

The final resting places of over 200 of the 20th century's late musical greats, from Howlin' Wolf to Benny Goodman to Janis Joplin. From France's Gothic Pere Lachaise Cemetery (where the remains of Chopin and Jim Morrison lie) to Hollywood's Forest Lawn (home to the bones of Karen Carpenter, Andy Gibb, and Liberace), Stanton covers 6 countries, 44 states, and over a million miles for his gravesite review.
Profiled alphabetically, the life, music, death, shrines, archives, and burial site of each musician is interesting and insightful, and the black-and-white photographs are a nice touch.

Epitaphs and Images from Scottish Graveyards
Betty Willsher

This is an illustrated collection of epitaphs divided into sections, such as death, resurrection, the professions and trades, eulogies and epitaphs quaint and curious.

Highgate Cemetery, Victorian Valhalla
Photographs by John Gay, Text by Felix Barker.

Excellent B&W Photos, well reseached history of Highgate Cemetery.

now out of print
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 Journal of a Ghosthunter
Simon Marsden

During a year-long journey beginning in southern Ireland and progressing through the British Isles, France and Germany to the mountains of Transylvania, photographer Marsden sought out Europe's most haunted locations. His black and white images reveal the ruins where lost souls still roam.

The Haunted Realm
Simon Marsden

Photographer Simon Marsden's interest in the supernatural began in childhood as he played hide-and-seek in the attic of his family's ancient house, ever vigilant for the appearance of the "family ghost". It wasn't until later that he discovered the craft of photography and developed an enduring fascination with the magic of time and light, and the enigma of "reality" that these elements conjure up.

 Awful Ends
David M. Wilson

This anthology of funeral inscriptions, both real and fictional, is gathered from sources all over the British Isles and America.

The Art of Remembering
Harriet Frazer, Lucy Lambton (Introduction)

Published to coincide with an exhibition at Blickling Hall, this book celebrates the skills of independent memorial makers and lettering artists. It contains photographs of all 54 works in the exhibition, along with essays on life, death, spirituality, the English tradition of memorials and the controversy over churchyard rules and regulations.

 The Art of Death
Nigel Llewellyn
Paperback - 160 pages Reaktion Books

Visual culture in the English death ritual

Death in England
Peter Jupp (Editor), Clare Gittings (Editor)

A social history of death from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the 20th century taboo about death, this book charts the story of the way in which our forebears coped with a fundamental aspects of their daily lives. The book reveals how attitudes, practices and beliefs about death have undergone constant change: how, why and at what ages people died; plagues and violence; wills and deathbeds; funerals and memorials; beliefs and bereavement. This wide-ranging analysis of death in England is illustrated throughout with photographs and images, their diversity reflecting and breadth of issues and periods covered.

 Bearing the Dead : The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria (Literature in History)
by Esther Schor

Mourning as a cultural phenomenon has become opaque to us in the twentieth century, Schor argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that thrived in English society from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Age, and to recapture its meaning. Mourning appears here as the social diffusion of grief through sympathy, as a force that constitutes communities and helps us to conceptualize history.