Alastair Horne is a lecturer in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, in Scotland. The author of several books including Graveyards, Graves of the Great and Famous, Paris: City of Light, and London: Treasured Capital of the United Kingdom – he is currently completing a doctorate on how smartphones are changing storytelling, and a novel set in an unnamed Parisian cemetery in the early twentieth century.

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• IntroductionEurope: Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki, Finland Skogskyrkogarden,Stockholm, Sweden Ringebu Stave Church, Norway Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland St Olaf’s Kirk, Unst, Shetland, Scotland Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland St Cuthbert’s Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland Glendalough, Wicklow, Ireland Kilmacduagh Monastery, Galway, Ireland Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, England Riley Graveyard, Eyam, Derbyshire, England Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England Bunhill Fields, London, England Highgate Cemetery, London, England Key Hill Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham, England Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England St Peter’s Graveyard, Woolton, Liverpool, England St Patrick’s Chapel, Heysham, England St James’ Church, Cooling, Kent, England St Mary’s Churchyard and Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire, England St Pancras Old Churchyard, London, England Bayeux War Cemetery, France Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-mer, France The Orient Garden at the Château d’Amboise, France Douaumont National Cemetery and Ossuary, Verdun, France La Cambe Cemetery, France Church of St Andrew, Luz-Saint- Sauveur, France Montmartre Cemetery, Paris, France Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France The Paris Catacombs, France Père Lachaise, Paris, France Cementerio de la Almudena, Madrid, Spain San Amaro Cemetery, Coruña, Spain Pantheon of the Kings, El Escorial, Spain The Church of Santa Maria Real, Sanguesa, Navarre, Spain Poblenou Cemetery, Barcelona, Spain Cemetery of Ciriego, Santander, Cantabria, Spain San Froilan Municipal Cemetery, Lugo, Galicia, Spain Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy Chiesa Dei Morti, Urbania, Italy Cimitero Acattolico, Rome, Italy The Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome, Italy Fontanelle Cemetery, Naples, Italy Necropolis of Pantalica, Sicily, Italy Necropolis at Cerveteri, Italy The Porta Romana Necropolis, Italy San Michele Cemetery, Venice, Italy The Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, Genoa, Italy Chiesa di San Giorgio, Portofino, Italy Wied Għammieq Cemetery, Kalkara, Malta Zentralfriedhof, Austria Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery, Lausanne, Switzerland The Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Lower Saxony, Germany Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, Berlin, Germany Jewish Cemetery, Rödelsee, Bavaria, Germany Melaten Cemetery, Cologne, Germany Heiliger Sand, Worms, Germany Südfriedhof, Leipzig, Germany St Johannis Cemetery, Nuremberg, Germany Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium Laeken Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands Nieuwe Ooster Cemetery, Amsterdam, Netherlands German War Cemetery, Ysselstein, Netherlands The New Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Czechia The Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Czechia Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb, Croatia Kovaci Cemetery, Sarajevo, Bosnia The Radimlja Necropolis, Bosnia and Herzegovina The First Cemetery of Athens, Greece Suda Bay War Cemetery, Crete, Greece Kerameikos Cemetery, Athens, Greece Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece Kerameikos Cemetery, Athens, Greece Flooded cemetery in Geamăna, Romania Merry Cemetery, Săpânţa, Romania Saint Lazarus Cemetery, Chișinău, Moldova Hill of Crosses, Lithuania Noratus Cemetery, Armenia Naissaar Cemetery, Estonia Tikhvin Cemetery, St Petersburg, Russia Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia City of The Dead, Dargavs, RussiaAmericas: Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Chinese Cemetery, Harling Point, Oak Bay, Canada Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Canada Cemetery and ruined church, San Juan Chamula, Mexico Day of the Dead celebrations, Ayutla, Mexico Tzintzuntzan, Mexico Arocutin, Michoacán, Mexico Cemetery of Oaxaca, Mexico Eklutna Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska, USA Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, USA Calverton National Cemetery, New York, USA Civil War Monument, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, USA Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, USA Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, USA Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, USA Neptune Memorial Reef, Florida, USA Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone, Arizona, USA St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California, USA Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, USA Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, USA Last Stand Hill, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, USA Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba Morne-A-l`Eau Cemetery, Guadeloupe Chichicastenango Cemetery, Guatemala Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery, Puerto Rico The Central Cemetery of Bogotá, Colombia Mompox Cemetery, Colombia Tulcán Municipal Cemetery, Ecuador Cemitério do Araçá, São Paulo, Brazil Cementerio General, La Paz, Bolivia Milluni Cemetery, Bolivia Cementerio Municipal Sara Braun, Punta Arenas, Chile Cementerio De La Recoleta, Asuncion, Paraguay Cementerio Central, Montevideo, Uruguay La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAfrica & Middle East: Rock-cut necropolis, Myra, Turkey Necropolis graveyard of Hierapolis, near Pamukkale, Turkey Roman sarcophagi, Ephesus, Turkey The Lycian Rock Tombs of Kaunos, Turkey The Valley of the Tombs, Palmyra, Syria Wadi-Us-Salaam Cemetery, Najaf, Iraq German Templer Cemetery, Haifa, Israel The Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem, Israel Dilmun Burial Mounds, Bahrain Jannat al-Baqīʿ, Medina, Saudi Arabia Chouhada Cemetery, Rabat, Morocco El Kettar Cemetery, Algiers, Algeria Sidi el-Mézeri Cemetery, Monastir, Tunisia Sīdī Badrī Cemetery, Old Town of Ghadamès, Libya Fatimid Cemetery, Aswan, Egypt City of the Dead, Cairo, Egypt Qubbas, Old Dongola, Sudan Shell island cemetery, Fadiouth, Senegal Pirate cemetery, Île Sainte-Marie, Madagascar Historic Cemetery of Ibo Island, Quirimbas Islands, Mozambique, AfricaAsia and the Pacific: Mizdakhan Necropolis, Uzbekistan South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India The Cemetery of Confucius, Qufu, Shandong Province, China Changling Mausoleum, Beijing, China Western Xia Imperial Tombs, Yinchuan, China Qingming festival at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, Beijing, China Seoul National Cemetery, Korea Yanaka Cemetery, Japan Sengakuji Temple, Japan Jizo Statue, Okunoin Cemetery, Japan Manila Chinese Cemetery, the Philippines Sunken Cemetery, Camiguin Island, the Philippines The Hanging Coffins of Sagada, the Philippines An Bang Cemetery, Vietnam Wang Hip Cemetery Park, Thailand Teochew Cemetery Park, Thailand Kwong Tong Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore Tana Toraja, Indonesia Skulls at Tampang Allo, Indonesia Menzies Cemetery, Western Australia Farina Cemetery, South Australia Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands, Australia Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Australia Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand