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The Mortician and Other Short Stories

Author : Charles E. Lake
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452034508
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Mortician and Other Short Stories written by Charles E. Lake and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are 14 interesting and enjoyable fictional stories in this anthology. The stories are short and independent of each other, which make for easy stop-and-go reading. You will enjoy a wide variety of stories: mystery, murder, suspense, romance, feel-good, and humorous. (Betcha can't read just one!) The Accident: A man decides he must murder to avenge his sister's death. The Bequest: An aunt's untimely death results in regrettable consequences. The Broach: Hostile twin sisters vie for their mother's broach. The Cabin: An unfaithful wife and her lover take steps to murder her husband. The Counselor: An alienated husband gets advice from a stranger. The Diary: A family learns the contents of Grandfather's diaries. The Encounter: An attractive young woman is not afraid to jog by herself. The Letters: Community newcomers are threatened for unknown reasons. The Loan: A young child loans her parents some money. The Mortician: A man must return a favor ... or else. The Pact: A secret platonic relationship spawns a crisis. The Playmate: A mother has aversion to her four-year-old daughter's friend. The Sale: A homeowner lives through a garage sale. The Ticket: A chance meeting is really not a chance meeting. Do you like surprises? You'll find one or two in each story!

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245950
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory written by Caitlin Doughty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Mortician Diaries

Author : June Knights Nadle
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577318579
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Mortician Diaries written by June Knights Nadle and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 50 years in the funeral business, 80-year-old grandmother-undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all — at least all of what goes on before, during, and after life’s ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries, she combines equal doses of charm, humanity, humor, and reality to tell it like it is on this taboo subject. A kind of Prairie Home Companion set in a mortuary, the book features memorable stories of regret — “I wish I had kissed him on the morning he had the accident” — and renewal, as the lesson of facing life’s last great event is learned, or not. Some of the accounts here are funny, some sad. Some are haunting in their strangeness as they reveal the many ways in which people cope. Along the way, the reader is drawn into Nadle’s own life story as an unconventional woman who devoted herself to the dead and to those they left behind.

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249905
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death written by Caitlin Doughty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

The Visibly Invisible Man and Other Short Stories

Author : M D Noel B Searle
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612047874
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Visibly Invisible Man and Other Short Stories written by M D Noel B Searle and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 14 imaginative and fast-paced short stories presents plots that are believable, and also have endings with unusual twists.----The Visibly Invisible Man and Collected Short Stories begins with a stranger moving to a small town in Kentucky. He is heavily covered from head to toe in clothing, allegedly to cover burn scars from the war in Vietnam. He is accepted into the community and circulates freely around town. But months later, the man robs the local bank of $200,000 and then disappears without a trace. The solution to the crime - and its twist - makes the story unforgettable.----The book's other short stories include "The Old Man on the Tee," about the death of a golfer. There's also the tale of an exciting encounter with a UFO, and a tiny man who becomes a shot putter on the American Olympic Track and Field Team. This unusual batch of stories takes readers on a fun ride.

Mortuary Confidential

Author : Todd Harra
Publisher : Citadel
ISBN 13 : 0806541393
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Confidential written by Todd Harra and published by Citadel. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

American Gothic Short Stories

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1787557464
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book American Gothic Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series. As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, George Washington Cable, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Ralph Adams Cram, Stephen Crane, Emma Dawson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen Glasgow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, W.C. Morrow, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Clark Ashton Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Madeline Yale Wynne.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9781432872274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? written by Caitlin Doughty and published by Thorndike Press Large Print. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and mortician Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

Crossroad

Author : W. H. Cameron
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643852817
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Crossroad written by W. H. Cameron and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a desolate road in the Oregon high desert, an apprentice mortician stumbles upon a horrific car crash--and into a vortex of treachery, long-buried secrets, and growing menace. Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage. There is no one to claim the infant, nor a clear indication she was even part of the accident. The crash offers plenty of opportunities for an apprentice mortician--but when the victims' bodies are stolen from her family's mortuary, Melisende is branded suspect number one. Then, Portland lawyer Kendrick Pride arrives on the scene on behalf of one of the victim's families--or so he says--and Melisende begins to see that there's much more to this enigmatic figure than meets the eye. As the shadows gather and the mystery deepens, Melisende must race to find the truth--or be swallowed by the darkness.

The Mortician

Author : A L Mengel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996326988
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Mortician written by A L Mengel and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do You Want To Live Forever? Ever since Jacob Benjamin touched his dead Grandmother's cheek while she lay in her coffin, he has had a fascination with death. The mystery of the grave and what lies beyond it became a lifetime quest for the young man. His Master's Degree thesis project explores the decades abandoned Waxley Mortuary, sitting in ruins. His research partners join him on a journey through life and legacy - but Jacob discovers there is still activity inside the dilapidated walls of Waxley. From the appearance of an old photo the story begins; and as the mirror of one's life reveals actions and regrets, Jacob realizes that there is one figure standing between him and his legacy, salvation, and redemption: The Mortician. A.L. Mengel goes back to his storytelling roots with a novel about the pursuit of legacy amidst the solitude of darkness. Can one shed their transgressions to accept their shortcomings?

Death Watch

Author : Ari Berk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416991158
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Death Watch written by Ari Berk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber's father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father's hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.

The Mortician's Apprentice

Author : Rick DeMarinis
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393036626
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Mortician's Apprentice written by Rick DeMarinis and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1994 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ozzie Santee, an eighteen-year-old high school graduate in 1953 California, falls in love with Colleen Vogel, daughter of San Diego's most successful undertaker

From the Back of the Hearse

Author : J. D. Holman
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434992624
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book From the Back of the Hearse written by J. D. Holman and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So here I am, sitting on a cold tile floor in an embalming room, leaning against the wall with a dead naked lady in my lap and laughing until tears come to my eyes. Death is not a respecter of persons or age. Through illness, disease, homicide, suicide, or accident, it takes the young, old, rich, and poor. Sometimes it's horrible, sometimes sad, sometimes unnecessary, and sometimes a blessing. Sometimes it is even humorous. It is not written to be disrespectful but to show that even in times of sadness and dispair, there can be a lighter side to death.

Tales From A Mortician

Author : Michael Gore
Publisher : AuthorMike Dark Ink
ISBN 13 : 098521466X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Tales From A Mortician written by Michael Gore and published by AuthorMike Dark Ink. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bed bugs that get under your skin, literally... to necrophilia, serial killers, the paranormal, cults, freak shows, jilted lovers and even a old curse are told within in the twenty horrifying stories from Tales From A Mortician. Each story will have your skin crawling or your stomach turning. Masterfully told by a writer who has more experience with the dead than anyone ever should, Michael Gore, who is a mortician by day, horror writer by night. Mr. Gore uses the bodies that come into his basement everyday as inspiration for his terrifying tales. While each uniquely haunting story is told in a grim light, they all have one thing in common, someone always ends up dead. Which makes sense being that Mr. Gore's favorite saying is.... "Every Body Has a Story."

Undertaker Tales: What They Don't Teach You at Mortuary School

Author : Norgus Press
Publisher : Norgus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780615545820
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Undertaker Tales: What They Don't Teach You at Mortuary School written by Norgus Press and published by Norgus Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Undertaker. After you have breathed your final breath the Undertaker prepares your body for the afterlife. They carry the burden of making you at ease in your new home for all eternity. The stories these brave men and women could tell! We have gathered but a few for you today in these pages. UNDERTAKER TALES IS A FICTIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF HORROR STORIES.

Do Me a Favor and Other Short Stories

Author : Anne Paolucci
Publisher : Griffon House Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Do Me a Favor and Other Short Stories written by Anne Paolucci and published by Griffon House Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Séances and Other Short Stories

Author : Charles E. Lake
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781647180881
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Séances and Other Short Stories written by Charles E. Lake and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2019-12-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seances and Other Short Stories An anthology of 15 entertaining, original, clean language, fictional short stories that are independent of each other, covering a wide variety of themes: deception, crime, murder, revenge, whimsey, and humor. Interspersed between some of the fictional short stories are some very short, amusing true anecdotes.