Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave My Journeys to Cemeteries

In Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London, and the Jewish cemetery in Prague, as well as more remote, decrepit, hidden, or secretly beautiful ones. These pages are full of the graves of famous figures - Elvis in Memphis, Karl Marx in London - mournful sculptures, traces of voodoo, catacombs, skeletons and an array of legends and stories. Mariana's personal journey weaves through haunting narratives, transforming burial grounds into spaces of reflection, obsession, and emotional discovery between the living and the dead. From the haunting statues of Staglieno in Genoa to the eerie silence of Rottnest Island's hidden Aboriginal cemetery, Enriquez's narrative shifts effortlessly between travelogue, essay, and memoir. In her unique voice, cemeteries transform into living, breathing places of reflection, obsession and revelation. As she roams, each cemetery becomes a lens through which she examines everything from colonial violence to the strange rituals surrounding death.

Product details

• Authors: Enriquez Mariana, Mariana Enriquez
• Assisted by: Megan McDowell (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 25.09.2025
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic
• EAN: 9781803511290
• ISBN: 978-1-80351-129-0
• Subjects: Stephen King, Dark tourism, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Paranormal, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Travel writing, Alan Moore, Samanta Schweblin, Translated Literature, Carmen Maria Machado, Highgate Cemetery, Dark Academia, Ghosts and poltergeists, Travel and holiday guides, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Haunted & Unexplained, Sociology: death and dying, shirley jackson, International Booker Prize; Shirley Jackson; Stephen King; Alan Moore; Carmen Maria Machado; Samanta Schweblin; history of graveyards; famous cemeteries; highgate cemetery; famous graves; dark academia; dark tourism; translated literature; paranormal, famous cemeteries, Famous Graves, history of graveyards, marina warner sanctuary