Download or read book The Premature Burial Grounds written by Drac Von Stoller and published by Drac Von Stoller. This book was released on 2012-04-22 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Carvington worked countless hours down in his laboratory trying to perfect the greatest breakthrough in medical history. Most of his subjects were very unhealthy and barely made it through Dr. Carvington's experiments. Dr. Carvington wasn't about to give up his work on any poor useless specimen that meant absolutely nothing to him in a personal way. Dr. Carvington must have seen half a dozen specimens before the right one came along. There stood at the doorway a dashing young man with blonde hair and blue eyes. Dr.Carvington's daughter Priscilla answered the door and was blown away at how handsome the young man was. Priscilla said, "May I help you?" "Yes, as a matter of fact, you can. I'm here to see Dr. Carvington. I answered an ad in the local newspaper about needing an assistant in some of his experiments," said the young man. "I didn't catch your name," said Priscilla. "If you must know my name is Pierre." "Well, Pierre my name is Priscilla I'm Dr.Carvington's daughter." "I didn't know the doctor had such a beautiful daughter," said Pierre. "Thank you, kind sir. Now if you'll follow me, I'll take you to see my father," said Priscilla. Pierre and Priscilla couldn't take their eyes off each other. As they were headed down the steps to the laboratory Priscilla held Pierre's hand and asked him if he had a girlfriend. Pierre said, "No, it's been a long time since I've been in any kind of relationship." "I would like to be your girlfriend if you like," said a blushing Priscilla. "I would like that very much Priscilla," said a quiet-spoken Pierre. "Well here we are, this is my father's laboratory. What do you think?" said Priscilla. "This is a nice setup you got here, Dr. Carvington," said Pierre. "I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself," said Pierre. "My name is Pierre. I answered your ad in the newspaper about the need for an assistant." "Nice to meet you Pierre when can you start?" said Dr. Carvington. "I'm ready now," said Pierre. "Priscilla you run along now Pierre and I have a lot of work to do." "Okay, Father, I'll fix you and Pierre a nice meal for tonight. Does 7:00 pm sound ok?" said Priscilla. "Yes, that sounds great," said Dr. Carvington. "Pierre why did you apply to my ad in the newspaper?" said Dr. Carvington. "Well Dr. Carvington my mother has been very ill and the doctor bills have been piling up and I've always dreamed of working for a great doctor such as yourself," said Pierre. "I believe you'll like working with me because I'm working on a scientific breakthrough in the medical field. Does that sound exciting or not to you Pierre?" said Dr. Carvington. "Sure does Dr. Carvington," said Pierre. "Pierre there's going to be times when the experiment might fail. If anything should go wrong and the patient dies there is a cemetery about a hundred yards in back of my laboratory where they will be buried." "Each patient has to sign a waiver form stating that Dr. Carvington will not be held responsible for anything that goes wrong, including death. I've already buried half a dozen bodies in the cemetery behind my laboratory," said Dr. Carvington. "Dr. Carvington what kind of experiments are you working on?" said Pierre. "Pierre, What I'm about to tell you don't leave this room. Do you understand?" "Yes, Dr. Carvington, I do understand. I won't tell a soul," said Pierre. "Pierre, what I'm about to tell you, you're going to think I'm mad but I tell you this will be a breakthrough that will bring me the notoriety and the respect of the medical field," said Dr. Carvington.
Download or read book Buried Alive written by Jan Bondeson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1800s, stories filled medical journals as well as fiction (Poe's "The Premature Burial") of people being buried before they actually died. Canvassing medical records of the time, the author presents an engrossing and witty history of the fear and facts of being buried alive. Illustrations.
Download or read book Premature Burial and how it May be Prevented written by William Tebb and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Premature Burial written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Premature Burial", a man obsessed with the fear of being buried alive recounts known cases of premature burial. His fixation drives him to extremes to avoid his fate, until he confronts the reality of his greatest phobia in a shocking way.
Download or read book The African Burial Ground in New York City written by Andrea E. Frohne and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, archaeologists in lower Manhattan unearthed a stunning discovery. Buried for more than 200 years was a communal cemetery containing the remains of up to 20,000 people. At roughly 6.6 acres, the African Burial Ground is the largest and earliest known burial space of African descendants in North America. In the years that followed its discovery, citizens and activists fought tirelessly to demand respectful treatment of eighteenth-century funerary remains and sacred ancestors. After more than a decade of political battle—on local and national levels—and scientific research at Howard University, the remains were eventually reburied on the site in 2003. Capturing the varied perspectives and the emotional tenor of the time, Frohne narrates the story of the African Burial Ground and the controversies surrounding urban commemoration. She analyzes both its colonial and contemporary representations, drawing on colonial era maps, prints, and land surveys to illuminate the forgotten and hidden visual histories of a mostly enslaved population buried in the African Burial Ground. Tracing the history and identity of the area from a forgotten site to a contested and negotiated space, Frohne situates the burial ground within the context of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century race relations in New York City to reveal its enduring presence as a spiritual place.
Download or read book The London Burial Grounds written by Mrs. Basil Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe s Spirits of the Dead written by Richard Corben and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Edgar Allan Poe's classics adapted by master horror comics artist and Eisner Hall of Fame inductee, Richard Corben.
Download or read book Cremation in America written by Fred Rosen and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating review of the history, the practice, and the industry of cremation in America, award-winning former New York Times columnist Fred Rosen provides an authoritative source of information and many revealing facts about an increasingly common, yet still controversial, alternative to burial. Rosen gives an entertaining first person account of his inquiry into the practice of cremation and its roots. He describes the early ancient custom of cremation by funeral pyre and then explores why the rising Church banned the practice as a sacrilege. He then traces the underpinnings of the modern cremation movement in the late 19th century among a colorful group of intellectuals and physicians. This 19th century group endorsed this then illegal practice as a means to improve public health--as a way to prevent seepage of burial grounds from polluting ground water and spreading disease. Rosen goes on to examine, in today''s world, people''s feelings about death and religion as well as their sensitivities to cremation. Given certain abuses, he believes that this industry needs to be regulated. However, he finds much in favor of cremation when firsthand comparing its costs vs. the excesses and extravagances of the burial funeral industry. In an age when over 25 percent of the population is turning to cremation as a preferred funeral arrangement, this book offers much timely, useful, and engrossing information.
Download or read book The Victorian Book of the Dead written by Chris Woodyard and published by Kestrel Publications (OH). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
Download or read book Poetical Remains written by Samantha Matthews and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cultural study, which concentrates on poets and poetry from the Romantic to late Victorian period. Poetical Remains deals with issues such as the place of burial, the kind of monument deemed appropriate, the poet's 'last words' and last poems, the creation of memorial volumes, and the commercial boost given to a poet's reputation by 'celebrity death', focussing in each case on the powerful, complex, often unstated but ever-present connections between the poet's body and their poetic 'corpus'. As well as the works of the poets themselves, Matthews draws on contemporary biography and memoirs, family correspondence, newspaper reports, and tribute verse among other texts, and places the literature of poetic death in its social, material, and affective context: the conflict between the idealized 'country churchyard' and the secular urban cemetery, the ideal of private, familial burial as against the pressure for public ceremony, the recuperation of death-in-exile as an extension of national pride, transactions between spiritual and material, poetic and pragmatic, in a secularizing age. Some of the most poignant and darkly comic moments in nineteenth-century literary history arose around the deathbeds of poets and the events which followed their deaths. What happened to Shelley's heart, and to Thomas Hood's monument; the different fates which dictated that the first Poet Laureate appointed by Queen Victoria, Wordsworth, was buried in his family plot in Grasmere, while her second, Tennyson, was wrested from his family's grasp and interred in Westminster Abbey - these are some of the stories which Matthews tells, and which are bound up in a sustained and powerful argument about the way in which our culture deals with artists and their work on the boundary between life and death.
Download or read book Pet Sematary written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A horror story of a children's pet cemetery and another graveyard behind it from which the dead return.
Download or read book The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Sterling. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-four illustrated stories by the nineteenth-century American writer best known for his tales of horror.
Download or read book Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record written by Eileen M. Murphy and published by Studies in Funerary Archaeolog. This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume contains twelve papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries. It has long been recognised by archaeologists that certain individuals in a variety of archaeological cultures from diverse periods and locations have been accorded differential treatment in burial relative to other members of their society. These individuals can include criminals, women who died during childbirth, unbaptised infants, people with disabilities, and supposed revenants, to name but a few. Such burials can be identifiable in the archaeological record from an examination of the location and external characteristics of the grave site. Furthermore, the position of the body in addition to its association with unusual grave goods can be a further feature of atypical burials. The motivation behind such non-normative burial practices is also diverse and can be related to a wide variety of social and religious beliefs. It is envisaged that the volume will make a significant contribution towards our understanding of the complexities involved when dealing with non-normative burials in the archaeological record.
Download or read book Death in Medieval Europe written by Joelle Rollo-Koster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the middle ages. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland and Spain. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.
Download or read book Curious Epitaphs written by William Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Premature Burial written by William Tebb and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers potential solutions as well as terrifying anecdotes"--Back cover.
