Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys

An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times)

“Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take you by the hand and lead you for a long traipse among tilting tombstones, dank crypts, and chilling history.”—Joe Hill

“An immersive testament to [Enriquez’s] genius."—Los Angeles Times

“A perfect book for almost anyone.”—The Washington Post

“Fascinating . . . Enriquez hides a celebration of life in a book about death.”—Booklist, starred review

Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books.

Mariana Enriquez has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. A goth flaneur among the headstones, she has journeyed across North and South America, Europe and Australia, Paris's catacombs, Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans's above-ground mausoleums, the opulent Recoleta in her hometown of Buenos Aires, and beyond to investigate what the living can learn from the dead.

Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths, hauntology, personal photographs, and more, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave reveals as much about Enriquez's own life and unique sensibility as the graveyards she tours. Fascinating, spooky, and unlike anything else, Enriquez's first work of nonfiction, translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, is as original and startling as the fiction for which she's become so beloved and admired.