If a cemetery has touched your life and you’re interested in contributing an essay to the Death’s Garden Revisited project, the call for submissions with all the details is here: https://cemeterytravel.com/deaths-garden-call-for-submissions/
To follow below is a list of the Death’s Garden Revisited essays I’ve published on Cemetery Travel so far. The contributors are bloggers, historians, horror authors, painters, playwrights, tour guides, and filmmakers.
Ocean View Cemetery, California: The Cult of Saints by Tanya Monier
Monument to the Deportation, Paris, France: Pastrami in Paris by Loren Rhoads
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois: Mausoleum Walk by Karen Kruse
Unnamed New Jersey cemeteries: Exhuming Corpses for Fun and Profit by Paul Stansfield
Old City Cemetery, Sacramento, California: Night of the Reaper by Christopher R. Bales
Old City Cemetery, Sacramento, California: Dancing on May’s Grave by M. Parfitt
Highgate Cemetery, London, England: A Restless Wind is Blowing Through Highgate by Loren Rhoads
Unnamed cemetery near Warren, New York: History Lives Like Ghosts by Trilby Plants
Unnamed cemetery: The Graveyard of My Childhood by Claudius Reich
Catacomb of St. Sebastian, Rome, Italy: The Original Catacomb by Loren Rhoads
Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia: The Symbols of Oakland by Richard Waterhouse
Cedar Grove Cemetery, South Bend, Indiana: Creeping In and Out of Cemeteries by Anne Born
St. Louis #1, New Orleans, Louisiana: New Orleans Blues by Christine Sutton
Heimaey, Iceland: In the Shadow of Eldfell by Greg Roensch
St. Stephen’s Cemetery, Concord, California: How the Forgotten Angels Saved my Life by Emerian Rich
St. Mary’s Churchyard, Whitby, England: Whitby by Donna Cuttress
Cemetery of Alto de Sao Joao, Lisbon, Portugal: Coimetrophobia by David Bingham
Pension Mountain Cemetery, Berryville, Arkansas: Cemetery Strawberries by Chris LaMay-West
Cutts-Madison House, Washington, DC: The Legend of Black Aggie by E. A. Black
Flushing City Cemetery, Flushing, Michigan: Brian and Paul and Me in the Cemetery by Martha J. Allard
Chiswick New Cemetery, London, England: Chiswick New by Sheldon K. Goodman
Blossomberg Cemetery, Gibraltar, Wisconsin: A Taphophilic Transformation of a Tender Tot by Chris Raymond
Martinique: An Island of Mystery by K. R. Morrison
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California: Muzak for the Dead by Dana Fredsti
Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Indiana: Solitude and Spectres at Highland Lawn Cemetery by Joy Neighbors
Unnamed cemetery, Ghost in the Graveyard by Benjamin Scuglia
Union Cemetery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada: Sister Act: The Story of Clarissa Terwilliger by Laura Suchan
Cherry Ridge Cemetery, New Jersey: Katie Likes Flowers by Joanne M. Austin
Sandy Mount United Methodist Church Cemetery, Finksburg, Maryland: Marking Fred Gwynne’s Unmarked Grave with Flowers by Sharon Pajka
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Meditation Amidst the Tombs by Alma Sinan
Holy Cross Cemetery, Fresno, California: Pushing Up Mare’s Tails by Amy Shea
Mount Union Christian Churchyard, Slanesville, West Virginia: A Voice in the Cemetery by Frank E. Bittinger
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California: In the Dark by Loren Rhoads
Old City Cemetery, Sacramento, California: A Tale of 25,000 Tales by M. Parfitt
Wesminster Church Burial Ground, Baltimore, Maryland: Westminster Church by E. A. Black
Maple Hill Cemetery, Helena, Arkansas: The Dead Dreaming by Billie Sue Mosiman
Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France: Communing with the Dead by George Neville-Neil
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia: The Allure of the Abandoned Cemetery by Ed Snyder
Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles, California: Rozz Forever by Lilah Wild
Unnamed Michigan cemetery: Message in the Grass by Patricia Merewether
Sacred Heart Cemetery, Florissant, Missouri: The Sacred Heart by Robert Holt
McGarel Cemetery, Larne, Ireland: Toasting a Ghost in Northern Ireland by Anne Born
Jacksonville Cemetery, Jacksonville, Oregon: Jacksonville Cemetery by Stacey Graham
Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Texas: Crossed Fingers by Jo Nell Huff
Nunhead Cemetery, London: The Cemetery that Changed My Life by Carole Tyrrell
Hotel Resurreccion, Venezeula: Hotel Resurreccion by Brian Thomas
Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Colorado Springs: Memorial Gardens by Emerian Rich
Iowa Hill cemeteries, California: Short was My Life, Long is My Rest by Loren Rhoads
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California: The 4th of July, If You Like Cemetery Hilltops by Arthur Kay
