Quote by Dan Wells

“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.”

— Tahir Shah

“I love a corpse. I love a bit of gruesome.”

— Jennifer Saunders

“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”

— Vanora Bennett

“They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like…

— Maggie LaCroix

“The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Flesh, bodies, nerves, legs… things were getting all mixed up in his mind. It seemed to be filled with flesh, cloyed with the sweetish…

— Humphrey Cobb

“This felt like that. Hollow and painful on the inside. So bad that you wanted to cut yourself and watch the blood spill out…

— S. Doyle

“There's nothing worse than a messy dead body.”

— Deborah Noyes

“There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial service was…

— Mary Roach

“When I arrived at the graveyard, Silla and her brother were sitting together snacking on cookies. They both wore jeans and sweaters and had…

— Tessa Gratton

“My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern.”

— Henri Cole

“His face was a ghost story: graveyard eyes, cheekbones as sharp as urban legends, a sealed-coffin mouth.”

— Allyse Near