Death’s Garden Revisited is on Kickstarter

Something new from yours truly – I’ve contributed a personal essay to a new anthology and it’s live on Kickstarter!

ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY

Death’s Garden Revisited from Automatism Press features 40 powerful personal essays that explore the relationships the authros have with cemeteries. Genealogists and geocachers, travelers and tour guides, anthropologists, historians, pagan priestesses, and ghost hunters all venture into cemeteries in these essays.

Spanning the globe from Iceland to Argentina and from Portland to Prague, Death’s Garden Revisited explores the complex web of relationships between the living and those who have passed before.

THE AUTHORS

Cemetery writers/Genealogists/Historians:

Anne Born, Barbara Baird, Carrie Sessarego, Carole Tyrrell, Erika Mailman, J’aime Rubio, Jo Nell Huff, Joanne M. Austin, Rachelle Meilleur, Sharon Pajka, Trilby Plants

Horror authors:

A. M. Muffaz, Angela Yuriko Smith, Christine Sutton, Denise N. Tapscott, E. M. Markoff, Emerian Rich, Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, Francesca Maria, Greg Roensch, Mary Rajotte, Melodie Bolt, Priscilla Bettis, Rena Mason, Robert Holt, R. L. Merrill, Saraliza Anzaldua, Stephen Mark Rainey, Trish Wilson

Contributors from Morbid Curiosity magazine:

Benjamin Scuglia, Brian Thomas, Chris LaMay-West, George Neville-Neil, M. Parfitt, Paul Stansfield, Rain Graves

THE BOOK

Death’s Garden Revisited is the 2nd volume in the series. The original, Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries, featured over two dozen essays and more than 200 photographs involving 27 contributors, including spoken word diva Lydia Lunch.

The Kickstarter to fund production of the book includes a full-color ebook, 8×10 paperback, and a hardcover edition as rewards. Stretch Goals include more photographs, color photographs, and additional essays.

OUR HOSTESS

Death’s Garden Revisited is a project from Editor Loren Rhoads, the author of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die and Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. She’s blogged about cemeteries as travel destinations since 2011 at CemeteryTravel.com. She’s also written about cemeteries for Legacy.com, the Daily Beast, Gothic.Net, Gothic Beauty, Mental Floss, the Cemetery Club, the Horror Writers Association, and so much more. She’s been a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies for more than 20 years.

THE PRESS

Automatism Press is a small independent publisher founded in San Francisco in the 1990s. We have published both books and periodicals, including the influential nonfiction journal Morbid Curiosity. Death’s Garden Revisited will be our tenth full-length book.

Past books include Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries (long out of print), the photo-illustrated Cemetery Travels Notebook, and the second edition of my essay collection Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel.

HELP US KICKSTART IT

To support this incredible project, head to Kickstarter! The campaign runs until April 16.