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Belli
03-08-2019, 07:44 AM
I'm doing a studie for school about graveyards in fiction and could really need some help if you know any thrilling graveyard scenes.
I'm mostly interested in the horror/terror genre but other as well.

ex.
Bram Stoker - Dracula, when Lucy walks through the graveyard as a vampire.
Edgar Allan Poe - Berenice, when Egaeus go to the graveyard to dig up his cousins grave.
Stephen King - Pet Sematary, obviously.
Dickens - Great Expectations, the opening scen.

Any other that comes to mind?

Ecurb
03-08-2019, 01:39 PM
Fog in the Barrow Downs in "The Fellowship of the Ring".

The end of "Wuthering Heights".

kev67
03-08-2019, 06:48 PM
Think there's one or two in Woman In White by Wilkie Collins. iirc Anne Catherick (is that her name) was cleaning Mrs Fairlie's grave stone.

ennison
03-09-2019, 05:54 PM
I don't know if you would call them "thrilling" but Twain uses graveyard settings in Tom Sawyer and in Huck Finn. Gaiman sets a novel in a graveyard. I recall that Moonfleet has scenes set in a cemetery and crypt. There are probably quite a few.

sandy14
03-10-2019, 04:00 PM
Wuthering Heights has a few graveyard scenes worth visiting.

Also Confessions of a Justified Sinner is book-ended with the discovery of the Justified Sinner's bones.

Waveley by Scott similarly so.

Red Terror
04-01-2019, 10:24 PM
The graveyard scene in Hamlet. Duh ...

One of Sherlock Holmes short stories takes place inside a tomb mausoleum. I have to check what the title is because I don't remember right now.