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""Deeply fascinating. . . . With its broad scope, zippy writing, and lush illustrations, this makes for an entertaining overview of the cultural life of death."" * Publishers Weekly * ""Readers who enjoy anthropology, history, and topics related to the occult and macabre will appreciate Luckhurst’s thorough look into cultures’ treatment of the departed, from large religions to tiny villages."" * Booklist *

""Deeply fascinating. . . . With its broad scope, zippy writing, and lush illustrations, this makes for an entertaining overview of the cultural life of death."" * Publishers Weekly * ""Readers who enjoy anthropology, history, and topics related to the occult and macabre will appreciate Luckhurst’s thorough look into cultures’ treatment of the departed, from large religions to tiny villages."" * Booklist * ""Enjoyably erudite. . . . Richly illustrated with tombs and relics of all sorts, Graveyards travels beyond the cemetery gates to contemplate a variety of human experience with death.""---David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express

""Deeply fascinating. . . . With its broad scope, zippy writing, and lush illustrations, this makes for an entertaining overview of the cultural life of death."" * Publishers Weekly *

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Roger Luckhurst’s many books include Gothic: An Illustrated History (Princeton) and Zombies: A Cultural History. He has written for the Financial Times, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books and is a regular contributor for the BBC. He is the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

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