Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave My Cemetery Journeys Usa Mariana Enriquez by Mariana Enriquez, Megan Mcdowell (translator) 9780593733516, 0593733517 instant download after payment.

An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times)

Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books.

Mariana Enriquez—called by The New York Times a “sorceress of horror”—has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. She has visited them frequently, a goth flaneur taking notes on her aesthetic obsession as she walks among the headstones, “where dying seems much more interesting than being alive.”

But when the body of a friend’s mother who was disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship was found in a common grave, Enriquez began to examine more deeply the complex meanings of cemeteries & where our bodies come to rest.

In this rich book of essays—“excursions through death,” she calls them—Enriquez travels through North & South America, Europe & Australia, visiting Paris’s catacombs, Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans’s aboveground mausoleums, Buenos Aires’s opulent Recoleta, & more. Enriquez investigates each cemetery’s history & architecture, its saints & ghosts, its caretakers & visitors, and, of course, its dead.

Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths, hauntology, & more, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave is memoir channeled through Enriquez’s passion for cemeteries, revealing as much about her own life & unique sensibility as the graveyards & tombstones she tours. Fascinating, spooky, & unlike anything else, Enriquez’s first work of nonfiction, translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, is as original & memorable as the stories & novels for which she’s become so beloved & admired.