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I had no idea that there was a song with the words Bury Me Alive in the title. You learn something new every day and I think I've learned a bit more than that.
You'd think it's impossible to be buried alive in this day and age, but the odds might be stacked against you if that's what you believe. There are many stories from different places where people have come back from the dead. A woman, proclaimed dead by the coroner yet the husband couldn't or wouldn't believe it. He kept saying she's not gone. Low and behold, the woman still had a faint heartbeat and was taken out of the morgue. In the end she divorced said husband and he died a few years after the incident. He probably regretted saving her.
Which brings me to cemeteries and graves. We talk a lot about ghosts and haunted places but not enough about cemeteries. Before I get into that, did you know that a graveyard usually refers to the burial ground at the church? Also, the word cemetery comes from the Greek meaning a sleeping place. I guess the better interpretation would be the final resting place.
Aren't cemeteries fascinating though?
To me they are, at least. I haven't been to many - I consider that rather a plus - but I've had my share of visiting those who've passed away or being part of the whole funeral/burial ordeal. That part I'm not fond of. I know that my grandma was buried in the same spot as her mother, meaning on top of each other. I wasn't there for that funeral but it would have been interesting to see. Most graves are reused after about 100 years and with lack of space, the solution to be buried together, kind of, almost makes sense. Still a bit unnerving.
What I do like about burial grounds is the look of the resting places. Some are solemn, plain, while others seem grandiose in comparison. New Orleans is probably one of the most famous cities when it comes to cemeteries. My husband and I drove by the St. Louis cemetery as well as the Lafayette cemetery. It's rather unusual to see tombs. I didn't get to walk through it since men aren't too fond of exploring places where dead are hanging around, but you can see enough from the street to get the feel and sense of it.
The Lafayette cemetery is the resting place for many of the Irish and German settlers. That place alone has over 7,000 graves and 1,100 tombs. A site to behold. The St. Louis cemetery has one grave visited more than anyone else's and that'd be Marie Laveau, who was a free woman of color in New Orleans back in the 1800's. As for the famous vampire/witches horror writer, Anne Rice, her resting place is at Metairie cemetery. It would have been almost ironic if she were buried where all her characters rested, the Lafayette cemetery, but I'm guessing her son or she herself had other plans.
Do you ever glance over on your drive to work and wonder who the many people were before their death? What their story was? If they sit there by their grave waiting for a loved one who's been long gone just the same? Next time you drive by a cemetery think about all those who've been buried there, maybe even removed from there just to have someone else be put in their place, and ask yourself what might have their story been.
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Comments to my previous " Horror/Scary Newsletter (February 21, 2024)" :
Beholden  wrote:
I'm glad you mentioned poetry in your article. Increasingly, I am coming to the conclusion that poetry is what can give prose the extra oomph that it needs to break through the common hum. You mentioned a creaking door - but that's a cliché. Much more effective (and likely to waken the reader) is a shrieking door. Or, if that's too obtrusive, how about a whispering door? It's the unfamiliarity of the image that will make the reader sit up and take notice. And it's the writing of poetry that draws such images out of our psyches.
Clichés have their place (sometimes they're clichés because they're the best way of saying it) but the unexpected has more punch.
I love your take on this. Most times I prefer writing poetry in the horror genre because for some reason it creates a much better effect with the corresponding feelings than a story. I definitely don't run away from clichés but if you have something different and better, by all means, use it!
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