A collection of gravestone inscriptions, some genuine, some suspect, and a few contrived.

Readers interested in English literary history, cultural poetics, comparative literature, the history of attitudes toward death, and the relationship between li

Epitaphs are a unique artform. In previous centuries they were regarded as an opportunity to celebrate, mourn, reflect on, philosophize, lament, or affirm the i

Originally published in 1933, this is a charming book of verse written by Martin Armstrongand illustrated with wood-engravings from the skilled hands of Eric Ra