cemeteries

At age twelve, grave robber Thomas Marsden discovers a boy who looks just like him in an unmarked grave and begins a journey of discovery as he learns of faeries trapped in London and their hope that he can return them to their realm.

The late citizens of a small Missouri community wake up underground after death and reconnect with loved ones over the course of 150 years before some of them begin to actually disappear, prompting a town-wide investigation.

Amanda and her friends attempt to bury a dead squirrel in Amanda's family's pet cemetery in her back yard, but suspicion falls on the scary, old lady who lives next door when the spot they choose to dig is already occupied and not by one of Amanda's old pets.

The second volume of a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The graveyard book, in which the orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. But Bod must remain in the graveyard, for leaving it could mean his death at the hands of a man named Jack--the man who murdered Bod's family.

Nancy Drew, having found a map in Shady Glen cemetery, follows clues which lead her to a fortune in gold and facts about an outbreak of robberies.

On a dare, twelve-year-old Jake ventures into a spooky cemetery where many of his ancestors are buried, and learns its terrible secrets.

Horror movies are filmed in Highgate Cemetery in London, England. The oldest headstones at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic, are from the 1400s. In Cairo's City of the Dead, the poorest citizens live next door to graves! While visiting these graveyards isn't for the faint of heart, readers can enjoy all the spooky spectacles through detailed descriptions and history. Full-color photographs show the different ways cultures have buried their dead, from the beauty of Zentralfriedhof in Vienna to the restrained dignity of Arlington National Cemetery. Sidebars augment the main content with haunted tales and the famous people buried there.

Since the affair of the murdered cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Murray has moved into the lawnmower shed at the town cemetery, where he is close to the dead that he talks to and considers friends--but the caretaker's daughter, Pearl, wants him to use his gift to find a homeless man who seems to have disappeared, and may have been murdered by someone who is hunting the homeless.

An exploration of burial grounds that discusses their history, describes reportedly true supernatural events in cemeteries and tombs, and contains sidebars which encourages readers to thinking critically about the information presented.