Loren Rhoads’s Cemetery Resume

Membership:
  • Association for Gravestone Studies since July 1999.
Cemetery Book Publications:
  • Author of Graveyard Field Trips: A Memoir. It gathered essays published on Gothic.Net, GothicBeauty.com, Morbid Curiosity magazine, and more. It was published on Wattpad, August 2018. They chose it for their Nonfiction Spotlight feature, February 2021.
  • Author of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, a full-color hardcover encyclopedia of cemeteries around the world. It was published by Black Dog & Leventhal, a division of Hachette, October 2017.
  • Author of Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, a collection of cemetery travel essays. The updated second edition was published by Automatism Press, August 2017. The first edition was published by Western Legends Press May 2013.
  • Photographer of the Cemetery Travel Notebook, published by Automatism Press, April 2012.
  • Editor of Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries, published by Automatism Press, December 1995.
Cemetery Blogger:
  • I post a cemetery postcard on Instagram (@morbidloren) every Tuesday. The series began in January 2021.
  • I started the Cemetery Travel blog (www.cemeterytravel.com) on February 1, 2011. It has published more than 600 posts and gotten over half a million hits, as of December 2021.
  • My Cemetery Postcards blog ran for 119 posts on Tumblr in 2014.
Cemetery Aficionado Work History:
  • Cemetery columnist for the Horror Writers Association newsletter, August 2017-December 2020. The column was called Grave Fascinations.
  • Cemetery columnist for Gothic Beauty.com, October 2016-April 2017.
  • Arranged tours of San Francisco Bay Area historic cemeteries for the Atlas Obscura Society, March-June 2014.
  • Book reviewer, Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly, 2012-2014.
  • Cemetery columnist at Gothic.Net, 1997-2003. I wrote 46 columns about cemeteries as travel destinations.
Cemetery Lectures:
  • “Postcards from History: San Francisco’s Mission Dolores as Recorded in Tourist Postcards,” presented to the Association for Gravestone Studies conference, June 24, 2021.
  • “The Future of Death,” presented at the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association’s Nebula Conference, May 16, 2019.
  • “Postcards from History,” the initial version of my talk tracing the development of San Francisco’s Old Mission Cemetery through tourist postcards, at Odd Salon’s “Cemetery Stories” event during the Litcrawl festival, October 20, 2018.
  • Professor Steven Brown invited me to speak to his horticultural class at the City College of San Francisco, October 1, 2018.
  • “199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die,” a slideshow drawn from my book, at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California, September 15, 2018.
  • “How I came to write 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die” at the Association for Gravestone Studies conference in Danbury, Connecticut, June 21, 2018.
  • “Laurel Hill Cemetery: San Francisco’s Garden Cemetery,” for the “Memento Mori” evening of the Reimagine End of Life festival, April 17, 2018.
  • “Memento Mori: Even Graveyards Die” for Angela Hennessy’s “Over My Dead Body” class at the California College of the Arts, February 20, 2018.
  • 199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die at the Literary Speakeasy’s Martini Bar of Horrors at Martuni’s, San Francisco, California, October 30, 2017.
  • 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die at SFinSF at San Francisco’s American Bookbinders Museum, October 29, 2017.
  • “How Do You Read a Gravestone?” slides to interest kids in cemeteries, the Elks’ Annual Halloween Party, San Francisco Elks Lodge #3, October 29, 2017.
  • 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, California, October 20, 2017.
  • 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die at Stories Bookstore and Cafe in Los Angeles, October 17, 2017.
  • 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die at Borderlands Bookstore in San Francisco, October 7, 2017.
  • 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die at Green Apple on the Park in San Francisco, October 3, 2017.
  • “Whistling Past the Graveyard,” about ghosts, graveyards, and things that go bump in the night, at the Horror Writers Association’s StokerCon on the Queen Mary, April 29, 2017.
  • “Where Have All the Graveyards Gone: the Pioneer Burial Grounds in San Francisco and the Grave Migration to Colma” at Death Salon: San Francisco, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California, October 11, 2014.
  • “Cemetery Travel: Adventures in Graveyards Around the World” as part of the Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation lecture series, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, April 15, 2012.
Cemetery Discussion Participant:
  • “Down to Earth: The Future of Green Burial,” a panel at FogCon in Walnut Creek, California, March 9, 2019.
  • I facilitated a lunchtime discussion about cemeteries at the Death Salon: Seattle, September 9, 2017.
  • “Living into Dying,” a panel at WisCon in Madison, Wisconsin, May 30, 2016.
  • Discussed Wish You Were Here with the Cypress Lawn Book Club, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, May 21, 2015.
  • I moderated “The Death Panel: Funerals, Cemeteries, Burial, Autopsies, and Decomposition,” a panel at the World Horror Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, May 10, 2015.
Cemetery Article Publications:
  • “Cemetery Postcards,” about my collection, The Deadlands, October 19, 2021.
  • I compiled a list of “Cemetery Books Every Taphophile Must Have” for Bookshop.org. They featured my list in October 2021.
  • “True-Life Romance,” about taking prom pictures in the cemetery, reprinted in This Morbid Life, published by Automatism Press, August 2021. Originally published on Gothic.Net, February 2001.
  • “Survivors of the Old Christian Cemetery in Singapore,” Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly, Winter 2021.
  • “Additions to Your Cemetery Library,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, December 1, 2020.
  • “Green Burial for Beginners,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, November 1, 2020.
  • “Celebrating my Birthday in Cemeteries,” Readers Entertainment, October 10, 2020.
  • “Such a Pretty Girl,” about ghost hunting in Mountain View Cemetery, Horror Writers Association Newsletter, October 1, 2020. Originally published as “Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset,” Cemetery Travel, October 4, 2011.
  • “What a Piece of Work is Man,” about visiting the Capuchin catacombs of Rome, Horror Writers Association Newsletter, April 1, 2020. Reprinted from HorrorAddicts.net, January 26, 2017. Originally published in All You Need is Morbid, Wattpad.com, August 2014.
  • “Ten Guides to Local Cemeteries,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, December 1, 2019.
  • “Island of the Dead,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, October 1, 2019. Originally published on the Western Legends blog, June 1, 2014.
  • “Child Mortality as Remembered in Graveyards,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, February 1, 2019.
  • “The Highgate Vampire,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, January 1, 2019.
  • “Ten More Cemetery History Books for Horror Writers,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, December 1, 2018.
  • “Legends of Stull Cemetery,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, October 1, 2018.
  • “The Madam’s Haunted Tomb” appeared as part of the Ghosts in the Graveyard series on Roxanne Rhoads’s All Things Halloween blog, September 14, 2018.
  • “Spooked,” about Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery, Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “Idyll,” about a Pennsylvania cemetery as a storm came in, Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “The Glories of Ancient Rome,” Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “Gravestone Iconography 101,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, August 1, 2018.
  • “Resting Places of Horror Film Icons #2,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, July 1, 2018.
  • “Resting Places of Horror Film Icons #1,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, June 1, 2018.
  • “How to Be Safe in the Cemetery,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, May 1, 2018. Reprinted from TheCemeteryClub.com, August 30, 2011. Originally published at CemeteryRegister.us, June 28, 2011.
  • “Ten American Cemeteries to See Before You Die,” my recommendations of cemeteries to see in springtime, The Daily Beast, April 7, 2018.
  • “Dust to Dust: A Brief History of Burial,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, March 1, 2018.
  • “Four Graves for Harvey Milk,” The Cemetery Club, February 1, 2018.
  • “Committed to Flame: A Brief History of Cremation in the United States,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, January 1, 2018. The original version was published on Cemetery Travel October 9, 2012.
  • “Top Ten Cemetery History Books,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, December 1, 2017.
  • “Graveyard Horrors,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, November 1, 2017. Reprinted from the Halloween Haunts blog series hosted by the Horror Writers Association, October 24, 2015.
  • “American Vampires,” an outtake from 199 Cemeteries, Emz Box, October 27, 2017.
  • “The Ultimate Romantic Cemetery,” about the cemetery at Stoke Poges, Emmy Z. Madrigal’s blog, October 25, 2017.
  • “Cemeteries and the Ghost of Marie Laveau” appeared as part of the October Frights feature on A. F. Stewart’s blog, October 25, 2017.
  • “Five Cemetery Road Trips for the Ultimate Taphophile,” Mental Floss, October 16, 2017.
  • “The Most Haunted Cemetery in the World,” about Greyfriars Kirkyard, HorrorAddicts.net, October 8, 2017.
  • “Did You Know There Are Travel Sites Dedicated to Visiting Cemeteries?” The Author Spot, October 7, 2017.
  • “Cemetery Sights: Norton, Emperor of the United States,” Legacy.com, October 5, 2017.
  • “Stopping to Smell the Roses,” the introduction to 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, October 3, 2017.
  • “Where Horror Lies,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, October 1, 2017. Reprinted from “Where Horror Lies,” parts 1-3, HorrorAddicts.net, October 19-21, 2015. The first part was originally published as part of the Halloween Haunts blog series, hosted by the Horror Writers Association, October 21, 2014.
  • “Welcome to Grave Fascinations,” Horror Writers Association Newsletter, September 1, 2017.
  • “The Kiss of Death,” about Barcelona’s Poblenou Cemetery, Gothic Beauty.com, April 18, 2017. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “Cemetery Birds,” about the Two Rock Valley Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Northern California, Gothic Beauty.com, February 17, 2017.
  • “Wisconsin Ghost Story,” about Madison’s haunting Forest Hill Cemetery, Gothic Beauty.com, December 23, 2016. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “Cemetery Adventures in Singapore,” about Singapore’s Fort Canning Park and the Old Christian Cemetery, Gothic Beauty.com, November 22, 2016. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “Eight of the Most Fascinating Cemeteries You Can Visit,” Mental Floss, October 17, 2016.
  • “In Glorious Highgate Cemetery,” Gothic Beauty.com, October 12, 2016.
  • “Columbariums,” SEARCH magazine, Fall 2016.
  • “Bay Area Attraction: Wave Organ,” SEARCH magazine, Spring 2016.
  • “Take Your Children to the Graveyard,” ScoutieGirl.com, October 7, 2014.
  • “City in Amber,” a meditation on the dead of Pompeii, All You Need is Morbid, Wattpad.com, August 2014. Originally published in Morbid Curiosity #10, May 2006.
  • “Short was My Life, Long is My Rest,” about the historic cemetery at Iowa Hill, California, All You Need is Morbid, Wattpad.com, August 2014. Originally published on Gothic.Net, March 2002.
  • “So Shall You Be,” about the Sedlec catacombs in the Czech Republic, All You Need is Morbid, Wattpad.com, August 2014. Originally published in Morbid Curiosity #3, May 1999.
  • “Permanent Florentines,” Wicked World magazine, June 7, 2014. Reprinted from Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013. Originally published on Gothic.Net, December 2001. An excerpt called “Florence’s ‘English’ Cemetery,” appeared in the Official Newsletter of the Horror Writers Association, volume 14, #40, August 2003.
  • “Adventures in Cemetery Travel,” Western Legends blog, April 3, 2014.
  • “U.S. Marine Hospital Cemetery” entry for Atlas Obscura, November 12, 2013.
  • “Autumn People,” about visiting Ray Bradbury’s grave on my birthday, Halloween Haunts blog series hosted by the Horror Writers Association, October 28, 2013. The original version was published on Cemetery Travel October 30, 2012.
  • Tell Me feature about Wish You Were Here on Jennifer Brozek’s blog, October 28, 2013.
  • “Vacationing in the Land of the Dead,” Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Ornamental Cemeteries,” Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Days of Infamy,” comparing visits to the Hiroshima Peace Park with the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Natural Progression,” about the Yosemite Pioneer Cemetery, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Tombstone Tales,” about the cemeteries on Michigan’s Mackinac Island, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Half in Love with Death,” about the Protestant Cemetery of Rome, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “A Dream of Melancholy,” about San Michele Cemetery in Venice, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Garden of Graves,” about Mount Auburn Cemetery, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Here Rests the Dust,” about the Revolutionary-era cemeteries of Boston, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Sculpture Garden,” about Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Let Us Have Peace,” about the Grant National Mausoleum, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Cradle to Grave,” about the Bethany Lutheran Indian Cemetery, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Piecing History Back Together,” about Rose Hill Cemetery at the Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013. Originally published as “Putting History Back Together,” Gothic.Net, September 2001.
  • “On Tongues of Flame,” CemeteryRegistry.us, September 1, 2012.
  • “With Folded Wings,” about the Portal of the Folded Wings at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly, November 27, 2010. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Feeling Alive on the Day of the Dead,” about the Dia de los Muertos celebration at Hollywood Forever, Cemetery Travel, November 1, 2011.
  • “Thoughts from the World Trade Center, April 2002,” about Ground Zero in Manhattan, Red Room, September 9, 2011.
  • “Curiosity and the Cat,” about visiting the cemetery and the Kannon Shrine in Kamakura, Japan, Cemetery Travel, March 17, 2011. Originally published on Gothic.Net, January 2001. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “The Lion Among the Learned,” Quigley’s Cabinet, September 3, 2010.
  • “Not Fade Away,” about visiting Jack London’s grave, Eleven Eleven magazine, August 2010. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “A Cemetery that Once Rivaled Niagara Falls,” Morbid Outlook, April 2009. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Although Dead, They Still Speak,” about the Vysehrad Cemetery in Prague, Gothic.Net, March 2003. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Young Souls and Old Stones,” about the Old City Cemetery of Sacramento, Gothic.Net, February 2003. Originally published on the Stones CD (Lone Wolf Publications), February 2002. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “The Past is Present in Cypress Lawn,” Gothic.Net, January 2003.
  • “What’s Wrong with Forest Lawn?” Gothic.Net, December 2002. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “The Remake of Don’t Go to the Graveyard Without Me,” a cemetery booklist, Gothic.Net, November 2002.
  • “A Bus Called Cemeteries,” about the Day of the Dead in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Gothic.Net, October 2002. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Good, By God, I’m Going to Bodie,” about the graveyards of the ghost town, Gothic.Net, September 2002. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “A Restless Wind is Blowing through Highgate,” about the Highgate Vampire, DarkEcho.com, August 2002. Reprinted from Gothic.Net, October 2001. The most recent version appeared on Cemetery Travel September 20, 2016.
  • “The Dead Downtown,” about the graveyards of Lower Manhattan, Gothic.Net, August 2002.
  • “These Honored Dead,” about Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Gothic.Net, July 2002. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Morning in Sleepy Hollow,” about the Old Dutch Burying Ground and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Gothic.Net, June 2002. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “San Francisco’s Secret Cemetery,” about the Neptune Society Columbarium, Gothic.Net, May 2002.
  • “Infamy,” about the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Gothic.Net, April 2002.
  • “Basin Street Blues,” about St. Louis Cemetery #1 in New Orleans, Gothic.Net, February 2002. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Deep in the Middle of the Sea,” about the historic cemeteries of Maui, Gothic.Net, January 2002. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Son of Don’t Go to the Graveyard Without Me,” a cemetery booklist, Gothic.Net, November 2001.
  • “Love is Stronger than Blood,” about visiting my still-living Great Aunt’s gravestone, originally published as “Love is Thicker than Blood,” Gothic.Net, August 2001. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “When You’re Having Fun: the Capuchin crypts of Rome,” Gothic.Net, July 2001.
  • “The Original Catacomb,” about the Christian catacombs of the Appian Way, Gothic.Net, June 2001. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “The Eye of the Morbid Beholder,” about being interviewed by Jane magazine, Gothic.Net, May 2001.
  • “The Great Wallace Shows,” about a circus train wreck in Michigan, Gothic.Net, April 2001. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “In the Dark,” about visiting Marilyn Monroe’s grave, Gothic.Net, March 2001. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “Bride of Don’t Go to the Graveyard Without Me,” a cemetery booklist, Gothic.Net, December 2000.
  • “Those That Have Graves and Those That Have None,” about the Old Jewish Cemetery and Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, Gothic.Net, November 2000. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Rooted,” about Bendle Cemetery, Gothic.Net, October 2000.
  • “Cautionary Tale,” about the Tule Lake Concentration Camp, Gothic.Net, September 2000. Reprinted on Enterruption.com, October 2001 and in Enterrupted #3, February 2003. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “A Tour of History,” about Mission Dolores Cemetery, Gothic.Net, August 2000.
  • “Storybook in Stone,” about the San Francisco National Cemetery, Gothic.Net, July 2000. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “California’s Outdoor Museums,” about a cemetery exhibit at the Folsom History Museum, Gothic.Net, June 2000.
  • “Shades of Forever,” about Hollywood Forever Memorial Park, Gothic.Net, May 2000. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Evanescent Heroism,” about Postman’s Park cemetery in London, Gothic.Net, April 2000.
  • “Heroes of Filmland,” about visiting Bela Lugosi’s grave, Gothic.Net, March 2000. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “The Empire of Death,” about the Paris Catacombs, Gothic.Net, February 2000. Reprinted from the Azrael Project Newsletter, volume 6 #1, Fall/Winter 1998-99. Originally published in Travelers’ Tales: Paris, March 1997. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Where does One Start?” about visiting London’s Highgate Cemetery, originally published on Gothic.Net, January 2000 and excerpted as “How I Got Interested in Graveyards,” Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly, volume 26, #4, Fall 2002. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “Don’t Go to the Graveyard Without Me,” a cemetery booklist, Gothic.Net, December 1999.
  • “The Ghetto and the Small Fortress,” about the concentration camp at Terezin, Gothic.Net, November 1999. An updated version was included in Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, published by Western Legends Press, May 2013.
  • “How to Celebrate that Other Holiday in October,” about Pere Lachaise, Gothic.Net, October 1999.
  • “What the Worm Does Not Conquer,” about visiting the graves of Poe, Baudelaire, and Kafka, Gothic.Net, September 1999.
  • “What I Did on My Summer Vacation,” about the Pioneer Cemetery at Marshall Gold Discovery State Park, Gothic.Net, August 1999. An updated version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “The Hiroshima Peace Memorial,” Gothic.Net, July 1999.
  • “Code of Conduct,” about Aoyama Reien in Tokyo, Gothic.Net, June 1999.
  • “Unholy Obsession” about traveling to see graveyards, Gothic.Net, April 1999. Updated from Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries (Automatism Press), January 1995. A revised version appears in Graveyard Field Trips, published on Wattpad, August 2018.
  • “Epitaph,” the introduction to Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries, published by Automatism Press, January 1995.
Interviewed/Featured as a Cemetery Expert:
  • Witchcrafted Life included Cemetery Travel in “13 Awesome Cemetery Focused Blogs Every Taphophile Should Be Following” on October 13, 2021.
  • How Stuff Works interviewed me for “Who’s Buried in Pere Lachaise?” which was published on 3/5/21 and updated in August 2021.
  • The Guardian included 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die in “Top 10 Books About Graveyards” by David Barnett, October 30, 2019.
  • Dark Ink magazine interviewed me, Summer 2019.
  • Atlas Obscura, “In Search of Cemeteries Alive with Beauty, Art, and History,” October 31, 2018.
  • The Steampunk Explorer put together an in-depth three-part series of historic cemeteries that would appeal to those of a steampunk persuasion, October 27, 2018.
  • Lifestyles over 50 reprinted Larry Bleiberg’s “10 Great Cemeteries to See Before You Die,” May 2018. Published originally in USA Today as “10 Great Cemeteries to Visit Before You Die,” October 27, 2017.
  • Gonomad did a feature on 199 Cemeteries called “From Established to Eccentric, These Cemeteries are To Die For,” April 23, 2018.
  • Halloween Lifestyle cautioned readers “Don’t Die Before You See These Amazing Cemeteries,” April 23, 2018.
  • How Stuff Works consulted me about Potters’ Fields for “State-Funded Funerals: What Happens to the Unclaimed Dead,” February 23, 2018.
  • Library of the Damned: “Loren Rhoads Takes Us Through the Gates of the Cemetery” for Women in Horror Month, February 22, 2018.
  • Death & the Maiden interviewed me about 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, December 12, 2017.
  • The Spooky Vegan: “Macabre Non-Fiction Books for Darklings,” December 11, 2017.
  • The Daily Mail: “Cemeteries You Must See Before You Die: Scotland to Japan, the world’s most haunted and beautiful burial sites revealed,” December 7, 2017.
  • Funeral Zone featured “10 Cemeteries to See Before you Die,” December 1, 2017.
  • Funeral Zone did a more traditional interview called “A Kind of Serendipity: 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die,” November 24, 2017.
  • Luna Luna published the perfect review of Wish You Were Here and 199 Cemeteries as “Two Books to Delight the Tombstone Tourist in You,” November 24, 2017.
  • The Wall Street Journal wrote a lovely piece about 199 Cemeteries called “Books for Impassioned Travelers,” November 2, 2017.
  • Travel Gumbo announced my book and linked to my blog, October 31, 2017.
  • Salt Lake Tribune: “Two of the 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die are in Utah,” October 27, 2017.
  • The National Trust for Historic Preservation asked me for “The Best Historic Cemeteries to Visit Around the World,” October 27, 2017.
  • Hyperallergic: “A Guide to the World’s Most Intriguing Cemeteries” was Allison C. Meier’s summary of our interview, October 26, 2017.
  • Popsugar focused on “11 Cemeteries That Are Hauntingly Beautiful,” October 22, 2017.
  • Mind-Blowing Facts listed “10 Unique Cemeteries to Visit Before You Inhabit One,” October 20, 2017.
  • Did You Know focused on “7 Amazing Cemeteries to Visit Before You Inhabit One (if You’re into That Sort of Thing),” October 19, 2017.
  • Los Angeles Times book writer Agatha French came to my reading at Stories Books, then interviewed me and audience members. Her story appeared as “Hurry to see a cemetery while you can still appreciate it, says author Loren Rhoads,” October 18, 2017.
  • San Diego Union Tribune interviewed me in advance of my reading at Mysterious Galaxy: “Cemetery-book author takes readers to 199 of her favorites,” October 15, 2017.
  • The London Dead reviewed 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, October 15, 2017.
  • Vice had a different angle: “Being Dead Sucks Even More than You Thought,” October 15, 2017.
  • Real Simple: “10 Hauntingly Beautiful Cemeteries to Visit Before Halloween,” October 13, 2017.
  • Mental Floss was inspired to write “These Connected Graves in the Netherlands Prove Love Conquers All” after reading 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, October 7, 2017.
  • San Francisco magazine interviewed me “Just in Time for Halloween, Bay Area Cemeteries to See Before You Die,” October 3, 2017.
  • Time magazine interviewed me for “What Gets Remembered: How Visiting a Cemetery Can Teach You About History,” October 3, 2017.
  • Mental Floss highlighted “12 of the Most Beautiful Cemeteries Around the World,” October 3, 2017.
  • A Narrative Species article by Rich Kleffel accompanied his Agony Column radio shows: “Loren Rhoads suggests 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die: Life, Death, and Everything in Between,” October 2, 2017.
  • The San Francisco Chronicle featured the book in their Sunday Lit section on Travel Books: “199 Cemeteries: A Lively Chronicle of Culture,” September 29, 2017.
  • The New York Times’ Open Book column, “A Guide to Graveside Tourism,” September 27, 2017.
  • “Dark Tourism: Why Would You Want to Spend Your Holiday Visiting a Cemetery?” based on the interview I did for the Blueprints for Living show on ABC radio in Australia, July 6, 2017.
  • “Cemetery Travel: World’s Best Destinations” (background for Blueprints for Living interview on ABC radio in Australia), June 30, 2017.
  • Death: An Oral History by Casey Jarman, published by Pulp/Zest Books, October 2016.
  • KQED’s Jon Brooks quoted me for the Bay Curious show: “Why Are So Many Dead People in Colma? And So Few in San Francisco?” December 16, 2015.
  • Chicago Tribune: “Nothing like a Cemetery to Enliven a Trip” by Irene S. Levine, July 8, 2015. Reprinted on More Time To Travel, July 26, 2015.
  • Mental Floss chose Cemetery Travel as one of “9 Niche Blogs to Brighten Your Winter,” January 22, 2015.
  • Boston.com touted “A Fun-Filled Day in the Cemetery? Absolutely!” by Kristi Palma, November 1, 2014.
  • The Frugal Travel Guy quoted me in “Walking Among the Dead: The Art of Cemetery Travel” by Christine Krzyszton, October 29, 2014.
  • io9.com declared “This is the Life of a Graveyard Tourist,” authored by Cheryl Eddy, October 27, 2014.
  • Travel & Leisure’s website featured “The World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries,” which was then picked up by Smithsonian.com, Huffington Post, and Australia’s Herald Sun, October 2014.
  • “Travel Memories from Loren of Cemetery Travel,” The Travel Tester, June 8, 2014. Reprinted on LorenRhoads.com on June 13, 2016.
  • American Cemetery magazine featured Wish You Were Here in “On the Road” by Patti Martin Bartsche, October 2013.
  • WeatherChannel.com interviewed me for “How Weather Affects Cemeteries” by Lorraine Boissoneault, June 27, 2013.
Cemeteries on the Radio:
  • WWCK AM/SuperTalk 1570 on Cumulus: The Michael J. Thorp Show chatted with me live in Flint, Michigan. Airdate: December 20, 2017.
  • Under the Radar’s host Callie Crosby interviewed me for her WGBH 89.7 FM program. Airdate: November 10, 2107.
  • The Sean Moncrief Show interviewed me on Newstalk.com, a national radio station broadcast in Ireland. Airdate: November 6, 2017.
  • Entertainment Weekly Radio interviewed me about 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die for their show on Sirius XM. I missed hearing it, so I don’t have the airdate, but I know it appeared sometime in October 2017. They also featured 199 Cemeteries in their Best New Books list in November 2017.
  • My interview on the Jim Bohannon Show aired on more than 500 radio stations around the US several times on and around October 26, 2017.
  • The Finch Files’s Halloween episode featured 199 Cemeteries. Airdate: October 24, 2017.
  • Rick Kleffel’s Agony Column on KBCZ 90.1 FM, Santa Cruz Community Radio. Airdate: October 6, 2017.
  • Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf aired on KSCO 1080 AM in Santa Cruz, California. Airdate: September 25, 2017.
  • “Tombstone Tourism” on Blueprints for Living on ABC RN radio in Australia. Airdate: July 1, 2017.
  • The Finch Files featured Cemetery Travel, Wish You Were Here, and Morbid Curiosity magazine on KGO 810 AM. Airdate: October 2015.
  • “San Francisco History and Cemeteries,” DJ Lilycat interviewed me live on FCC Free Radio. Airdate: November 24, 2013.
  • Legendary San Francisco newsman Peter Finch talked to me in advance of my lecture at Cypress Lawn by recording live at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. The Finch Files show broadcast on KFOG 104.5 FM, KNBR 1050 AM, and The Bone 107.7 FM. Airdate: April 12, 2012.
Cemeteries on Podcasts:
  • Stones, Bones, and Shadows podcast interview with LaShelle Scott. Airdate: November 8, 2021.
  • Tombstone Tuesdays interview with Tui Snider. Airdate: March 16, 2021.
  • Books and Travel: Joanna Penn and I had the best cemetery conversation of my life. She called it “Life Obsessed. Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Ossuaries.” Airdate: October 29, 2020.
  • Ghost Magnet: Bridget Marquardt shared her love of cemeteries with me on her podcast. Airdate: September 21, 2020.
  • Something (Rather Than Nothing): Ken Volante invited me onto his podcast to talk about Morbid Curiosity magazine, cemeteries, and the purpose of art in the dark days of the pandemic. Airdate: September 1, 2020.
  • Strange Familiars: Timothy Renner and I chatted about 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die. Airdate: February 23, 2019.
  • On the Odd: Mark and I chatted about 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die. Airdate: October 26, 2018.
  • Venerable goth podcast Cemetery Confessions broadcast our conversation about cemeteries. Airdate: June 16, 2018.
  • Extreme Genes, my first genealogy podcast, chatted with me about 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die. Airdate: February 25, 2018.
  • My favorite interview ever might be Horror Addicts #150: Cure for the Holidaze. Emerian Rich asked what I did to chill out and survive the holidays. One guess what my answer was. Airdate: November 18, 2017.
  • The Writers Chatroom, moderated by Sally Franklin Christie, discussed my cemetery books. Airdate: October 8, 2017.
  • Horror Addicts episode #134 discussed Death’s Garden Revisited. Airdate: September 17, 2016.
  • The Women Show with Elizabeth Black chatted with me about Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travels, cemetery blogging, and Death’s Garden Revisited on BlogTalkRadio. Airdate: July 21, 2016.