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Cremation

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• Incineration

• Dead
• Funeral rites and ceremonies

• Urn burial

• Burning the dead

• Cremation and Urn Burial: or, The Cemeteries of the Future (1889), by W. Robinson (HTML with commentary at victorianlondon.org)
• Tombs and Catacombs of the Appian Way (History of Cremation): A Lecture Delivered in Rome, January 1891, Before a Select Audience of English and American Visitors (Rome: Società Laziale, 1892), by Olinto L. Spadoni
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Cremation and Urn Burial: or, The Cemeteries of the Future (1889), by W. Robinson (HTML with commentary at victorianlondon.org)

• Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Religio Medici, A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by Thomas Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religio Medici and Other Essays (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Thomas Browne, ed. by D. Lloyd Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Religio Medici and Other Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), by Thomas Browne, contrib. by C. H. Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lewis Bayles Paton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mémoires Posthumes de Braz Cubas (in French; Paris: Garnier Frêres, 1911), by Machado de Assis, trans. by Adrien Delpech (Gutenberg text)
• Memórias Pósthumas de Braz Cubas (in Portuguese; Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Nacional, 1881), by Machado de Assis (Gutenberg text)
• A Silent Witness, by R. Austin Freeman (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Living Mummy (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1910), by Ambrose Pratt, illust. by Louis D. Fancher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jewel of Seven Stars (based on the original 1903 version), by Bram Stoker (HTML at online-literature.com)
• The Jewel of Seven Stars (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Bram Stoker
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Google; US access only
• The Jewel of Seven Stars (1912 revised version), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
• The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension, by George Chetwynd Griffith (Gutenberg text)

• Requiem for a Wren (c1955), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (HTML at classicreader.com)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, ed. by Eleanor Marx Aveling (Gutenberg text)
• Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province (2 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1857), by Gustave Flaubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Vampire, by Henry Steel Olcott (HTML in Brazil)
• Vampires and Vampirism (London: W. Rider and Son, 1914), by Dudley Wright (Gutenberg text)

• Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)

• Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)

• The Vampire: or, The Bride of the Isles, by J. R. Planché (illustrated HTML at Forgotten Futures)

• The Vampire Conspiracy (novelization of the screenplay; c2005), by Kirsten Levinson and Marc Morgenstern (PDF at buried.com)
• Digital Knight (c2003), by Ryk E. Spoor (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)
• 13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale (2007), by David Wellington (HTML with commentary at archive.org)
• Vampire (New York: John Day Co., c1934), by Hanns Heinz Ewers, trans. by Fritz Sallagar
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Blood of the Vampire (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1897), by Florence Marryat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • HTML here at Penn
  • Gutenberg text and audio
• Der Vampir: Roman (translated into German; Munich: A. Langen, c1914), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Leon Richter
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • audio reading at Librivox and archive.org
• The House of the Vampire (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by George Sylvester Viereck (Gutenberg text)
• The Lady of the Shroud, by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
• Vampir: Ein Verwilderter Roman in Fetzen und Farben (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1922), by Hanns Heinz Ewers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vampyre (story only), by John William Polidori (HTML at doyleandmacdonald.com)
• The Vampyre: A Tale (includes commentary; London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819), by John William Polidori
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Varney the Vampyre
  • entire work: HTML with commentary at 50megs.com
  • entire work: HTML at Wayback Machine
  • first 96 chapters: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Dracula (based on the A. Constable edition, 1897), by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg text)
• Dracula (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1897), by Bram Stoker
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Bruce McClelland (page images at HathiTrust)

• Human Remains and Identification: Mass Violence, Genocide and the "Forensic Turn" (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2015), ed. by Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The 8th King's Regiment: A Curiosity in its Annals (Toronto: Copp, Clark Co., 1894), by Henry Scadding (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Graveyard Book (read by the author in its entirety; 2008), by Neil Gaiman (videos at Youtube)

• Human Remains and Violence (full serial archives)

• Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2014), ed. by Finn Stepputat (PDF files with commentary at Manchester Openhive)

• The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Basil Dufallo (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Migrations of Early Culture: A Study of the Significance of the Geographical Distribution of the Practice of Mummification as Evidence of the Migrations of Peoples and the Spread of Certain Customs and Beliefs (Manchester: At the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915), by Grafton Elliot Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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