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About Loren: Fiction Author: Loren Rhoads is the author of In the Wake of the Templars, a space opera trilogy. She’s co-author (with Brian Thomas) of the As Above, So Below books, a dark urban fantasy duet about a succubus and her angel. Her short stories have appeared in Best New Horror, Strange California, Fright Mare: Women Write Horror, Sins of the Sirens: 14 Tales of Dark Desire, and much more. Unsafe Words is the first full-length collection of her short fiction.

Nonfiction Author: Loren Rhoads is the author of 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die (forthcoming) and Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. She is the co-author (with Emerian Rich) of the Spooky Writer’s Planner. This Morbid Life, a memoir comprised of 45 death-positive essays, won a Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2022.

Cemetery Expert: Loren Rhoads is the author of 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die (coming in 2024) and Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. She’s the editor of Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries and its sequel, Death’s Garden Revisited: Personal Relationships with Cemeteries. She’s written about cemeteries for Gothic Beauty, Mental Floss, Atlas Obscura, and more. She’s lectured about cemeteries at the Association for Gravestone Studies conference, the Horror Writers Association’s Stoker Weekend, and the Science Fiction Writers Association’s Nebula Conference, as well as at the San Francisco Death Salon, the Odd Salon, and at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.

Editor: Loren Rhoads is the editor of seven books, including Death’s Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries, Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect, The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two, and Tales for the Camp Fire: An Anthology Benefiting Wildfire Relief. For ten years, she was the editor of Bram Stoker Award®-nominated Morbid Curiosity magazine. She collected some of her favorite essays into Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Tales of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual. In 2022, she edited Wily Writers Presents Tales of Nightmares and Death’s Garden Revisited: Personal Relationships with Cemeteries.

About the book: Perfect for budding cemetery armchair travelers and serious taphophiles, this hauntingly beautiful guide to the world’s most interesting and unusual cemeteries has been revised and updated to include 23 additional locations.

Every year, millions of tourists flock to cemeteries around the globe to uncover hidden stories of their residents and admire the incredible architecture, stunning landscapes, and even wildlife in these open-air museums.

In this lavishly photographic bucket list of the world’s most interesting cemeteries, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history, eye-catching monuments, and other fascinating finds that make each destination unique. Entries include unforgettable cemeteries such as the Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting; Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery which hosts gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees; and Il Cimitero Acattolico in Rome that is the final resting place of young poets John Keats and Percy Shelley.

Whether you are a true taphophile (cemetery enthusiast) who seeks out obscure locations or a tourist who likes to incorporate not-to-be-missed cemeteries like Paris’s Pere Lachaise and Arlington National Cemetery into your itinerary, 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die is both a useful trip-planning tool and a browser’s delight.