Greyfriars Graveyard

Greyfriars Graveyard

Author: Charlotte Golledge

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1445688190

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Explore the story of Greyfriars Graveyard, Edinburgh’s most important burial ground since the 16th century.


The Graveyards and Cemeteries of Edinburgh

The Graveyards and Cemeteries of Edinburgh

Author: Charlotte Golledge

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2020-02-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1445694255

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The history of burial in Edinburgh and the city’s graveyards and cemeteries. This fascinating portrait of life and death in Edinburgh over the centuries will appeal to both residents and visitors to the Scottish capital.


The Ghost That Haunted Itself

The Ghost That Haunted Itself

Author: Jan-Andrew Henderson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-02-24

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 178057438X

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Greyfrair's Cemetery in Edinburgh has a centuries old reputation for being haunted. Its gruesome history includes use as a mass prison, headstone removal, witchcraft, bodysnatching, desecration, corpse dumping and live burial. In 1998, something new and inexplicable began occurring in the graveyard. Visitors encountered 'cold spots', strange smells and banging noises. They found themselves overcome by nausea, or cut and bruised by something they could not see. Over the space of two years, twenty-four people were knocked unconscious. Homes next to the graveyard wall became plagued by crockery smashing, objects moving and unidentified laughter. Witnesses to these attacks ran into the hundreds. There were two exorcisms of the area. Both failed. The section of Greyfriars where the attacks occurred is now chained shut. The entity responsible has been named the 'Mackenzie Poltergeist'. It has become one of the best-documented and most conclusive paranormal cases in history. The Poltergeist is still growing stronger. This is its story.


199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

Author: Loren Rhoads

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0316473790

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A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.


A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

Author: Peter Ross

Publisher: Headline

Published: 2020-09-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 147226780X

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A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, to melancholy islands and surprisingly lively ossuaries . . . a considered and moving book on the timely subject of how the dead are remembered, and how they go on working below the surface of our lives.' - Hilary Mantel 'Ross is a wonderfully evocative writer, deftly capturing a sense of place and history, while bringing a deep humanity to his subject. He has written a delightful book.' - The Guardian 'The pages burst with life and anecdote while also examining our relationship with remembrance.' - Financial Times (best travel books of 2020) 'Among the year's most surprising "sleeper" successes is A Tomb with a View. In a year with so much death, it may have initially seemed a hard sell, but the author's humanity has instead acted as a beacon of light in the darkness.' -The Sunday Times 'Fascinating . . . Ross makes a likeably idiosyncratic guide and one finishes the book feeling strangely optimistic about the inevitable.' - The Observer 'Ross has written [a] lively elegy to Britain's best burial grounds.' - Evening Standard (*Best New Books of Autumn 2020*) 'One of the non-fiction books of the year.' - The i paper (*2020 Best Books for Christmas*) 'Brilliant.' - Stylist (*Best Christmas books for Christmas 2020*) 'Never has a book about death been so full of life. James Joyce and Charles Dickens would've loved it - a book that reveals much gravity in the humour and many stories in the graveyard. It also reveals Peter Ross to be among the best non-fiction writers in the country.' - Andrew O'Hagan For readers of The Salt Path, Mudlarking, Ghostland, Kathleen Jamie and Robert Macfarlane. Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? What is the remarkable truth about Phoebe Hessel, who disguised herself as a man to fight alongside her sweetheart, and went on to live in the reigns of five monarchs? Why is a Bristol cemetery the perfect wedding venue for goths? All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath.


The Ink Black Heart

The Ink Black Heart

Author: Robert Galbraith

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 921

ISBN-13: 0751584215

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***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023. Pre-order now and be the first to read it*** THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, JULY 2023 'A superlative piece of crime fiction' SUNDAY TIMES 'There can be no denying [Galbraith's] considerable talents as a crime writer' GUARDIAN 'Fans will be as entranced as ever' DAILY MAIL When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this - and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits - and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . . A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.


Black Markers

Black Markers

Author: Jan-Andrew Henderson

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2015-08-15

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1445647990

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Edinburgh's cemeteries have been notorious for centuries, from the infamous Greyfriars to the countless crypts, graveyards and mausoleums that proliferate through the city. This book reveals a host of traditions and stories regarding these distinctive sites, as told by an expert on the subject.


Secret City

Secret City

Author: Jan-Andrew Henderson

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780192719577

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"Charlie Wilson is about to have a totally amazing adventure. In the process he will become an explorer, a magician, a detective, and a grave robber. Then, finally, he'll become a killer ..." [Back cover].


Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides: Edinburgh

Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides: Edinburgh

Author: Terry Deary

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2012-05-03

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1407133527

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A stunning city guide with all the gruesome bits left in! Shudder as Terry Deary takes you on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Edinburgh, exposing all its scurrilous secrets! Climb up the cursed castle! Hit the High Street for a host of historical horrors! Find out whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir! Visit hellish Holyrood House! With kidnapped kings, mysterious murders and reckless raids galore, it's a trip you simply daren't miss!


Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby

Author: Jan Bondeson

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2011-06-15

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1445609371

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Explodes the myth of Edinburgh's Greyfriars Bobby.