Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns
“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, …
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The Doppelganger is Ready for His Close-up
Miracle Max: He probably owes you money huh? I’ll ask him. Inigo Montoya: He’s dead. He can’t talk. Miracle Max: …
I’ll See Your Fear of Death and Raise you Some Existential Anxiety
“Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright” – Alice Thomas Ellis …
Ghost Morality and Celestial Bureaucracy: What Would Casper Do?
“By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a …
Smellie and Greenlaw: Heaven Ain’t All Harps and Hosannas
“From recollecting our dreams …we may learn to correct many improprieties in our conduct…to resist, in due time, evil habits …
Unrest in Peace: The Unpopular Dead and Zombie Mean Girls
“From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first” – Bertolt Brecht Dead people can be so cliquish, particularly when …
Mother Knows Best: The Apparition of Lady Lee
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. …
The Not So Spontaneous Combustion of John Hitchell
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire” – Fred Shero I’m fairly …
The Four World Theory: Not to Alarm You, but You’re Going to Die
“In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness” – Samuel Beckett As humans have only been around for …
Dead Letters: The Haunting of Captain Sherbrooke and Lieutenant Wynyard
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living” – Marcus Tullius Cicero Two young officers …
Afterlife Accounting: Haunted by Debt?
“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart” – e.e. cummings …
My Brother’s Reaper: Ling Look and Yamadeva
“A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Christ’s sake. Yes, it’s funny: “Yo, empty …
Democratic Devils in a Rival Universe
“I suppose if anybody had a desire to start a new and rival universe, or to incorporate the plan of …
Brittia, the Austrasian Dumpster of the Dead
“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People …
My Barista was a Rosicrucian Necromancer
“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men” – Herodotus The problem with being a necromancer is that you …
Dead Daddy Dearest: The Ghost of Major Blomberg
“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone” – Antonio Porchia Before his marriage to Charlotte of …
Dead Man Working: Orthon and the Lord de Corasse
“I cannot say that there is any reason to fear death; I’ve yet to meet anyone who’s been through it …
Afterlife Anonymous: Raise a Toast to the Ghost
“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re …
Best Friends Forever: The Afterlife Experiment of Marsilio Ficino and Michael Mercato
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably” …
Puns Kill: The Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
“Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted” – Fred Allen The …
Rapture ‘Rithmetic: The Other Side of the Eternal Velvet Rope
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another …
Haunt Couture: Death Be Not Unfashionable
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which …
The Unfinished Business of James Haddock: Ghostly Legal Grievances
“I intend to live forever, or die trying” – Groucho Marx Any good accountant will tell you to get your …
Death After Life After Death: The Final Near Death Experience
“We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?” – Noel …
Giving Up the Ghost: Are You Someone Else’s Afterlife?
“I think that humans may have evolved from apes, because the simians openly imitate humans, as if conscious of a …
Die Saintly, Leave a Beautiful Corpse: Exhuming Incorruptibility
“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.” – James Joyce There are certain protocols …
Dead Puppies Aren’t Much Fun: Monstrous Mutts and the Afterlife
“There’s no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner” – John Grogan, Marley and Me All modern …
To Bee or Not to Bee: Mythological Implications of the Beepocalypse
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery …
Do Sins Taste Like Chicken? Scapegoating and the Sin Eater
“Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on …
The Resentful Dead: Afterlife with an Attitude Among the Japanese Funayūrei
“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation“ – Roberto Assagiolo Hey dead people, why …
Lifestyles of the Dead and Restless: Halloween and the Festivals of the Forgotten
“I want to die like my father, peacefully and in his sleep, not screaming and terrified like his passengers” – …
A Date With Der Nachzehrer: Germany’s Unattractive Undead
I resent vampires, particularly the modern ones that look like they belong in a boy band or just stepped off …
The Etruscan Evil of Mantus and Mania: Celebrity Couple of the Underworld
The Etruscans are a bit of a mystery. This is largely due to the Romans. And those meddling kids. Etruscan …
Death Be Not Salaried: Seasonal Grim Reaping with the Breton L’Ankou
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure” — Clarence Darrow We’ve all …
Hungry Ghosts: The Diet of the Dead among the Grigori, Preta, Yidak, Gaki, and Egui
John Steinbeck once observed, “Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger …
The Fearsome Alaskan Tlingit Kushtaka: If it’s not One Thing, it’s an Otter
There are five important facts to know about otters: (1) They are believed to be one of the most intelligent …
