From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today鈥檚 green burials
Scratching the surface Death confronts us all as the ultimate rupture and mystery at the very heart of life. That existential challenge has been met, it turns out, of an almost infinite variety of customs and rituals. Read More
Roger Luckhurst on Gothic: An Illustrated HistoryHow can you hope to navigate a genre that starts with a bunch of gloomy British poets brooding in crepuscular graveyards in the 1740s and ended up recently delivering us the sixth film in the Sharknado franchise (where killer sharks get hurled around...Read More
