References:

The Bedside Book of Death by Robert Wilkins

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Cemetery Stories : Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets and the Life of a Corpse After Death by Katherine M. Ramsland

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The Victorian Celebration of Death by James Stevens Curl

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Death and the Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia by Richard P. Taylor

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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson

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Corpses, Coffins and Crypts : A History of Burial by Penny Colman

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The Vampires Bedside Companion by Peter Underwood

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Ghosts, Ghouls & Other Horrors by Bernhardt J Hurwood

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All these books are either available via Amazon.Com or Indigo.Ca or your local library.