Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez

An unsettling, gothic journey through the world's cemeteries - to the graves of famous figures, mournful ghosts and stories of obsession - from the author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.

Fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager, Mariana Enriquez has visited them frequently. But when the body of a friend's mother who was disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship was found in a common grave, Enriquez began to examine the complex meanings of burial grounds more deeply.

In this extraordinary book of 'excursions through death', Enriquez travels through Europe, North and South America and Australia, visiting, among other locations, Paris's catacombs, New Orlean's mausoleums, Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery, the Aboriginal burial ground on Rottnest Island and Highgate Cemetery. Enriquez investigates each cemetery's history and architecture, its saints and ghosts, its legends and its dead.

Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths and more, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave channels Enrique's passion for cemeteties, revealing as much about her own life as the graveyards she tours.

Genres: Nonfiction - Memoir - Horror - Travel - Essays - History - Death - Spanish Literature