Appropriate for Burial Day Books here are the locations of the final resting place for some of the greats in the world of horror literature and the performance arts.
Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012)
Bradbury chose a burial place at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles with a headstone that reads “Author of Fahrenheit 451”.
Emily Bronte (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848)
Bronte is buried in St. Michael and All Angels’ Church, Haworth, Yorkshire, UK.
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)
Dickinson was buried next to her parents at West Street Cemetery in Amherst. The epitaph on her headstone was the same as the text of the note she had sent to her cousins Norcross: “Called Back.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930)
He was first buried on 11 July 1930 at the Windlesham rose garden, Crowborough, East Sussex, UK. He was later reinterred together with his wife in Minstead churchyard in the New Forest, Hampshire, UK. The epitaph on his gravestone reads: “Steel true/Blade straight/Arthur Conan Doyle/Knight/Patriot, Physician, and man of letters.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864)
Hawthorne was buried on what is now known as “Authors’ Ridge” in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, US.
Alfred Hitchcock (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980)
Hitchcock was not buried; He was cremated and his remains were scattered across the Pacific Ocean.
Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965)
Jackson was cremated and her ashes given to her youngest son, Barry Hyman.
HP Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937)
Lovecraft is buried in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I., US, which is just northeast of the Brown University and College Hill area.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
Poe was buried after a small funeral at the back of Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore, MD, US but his remains were moved to a new grave with a larger monument in 1875. The newer monument also marks the burial place of Poe’s wife, Virginia, and his mother-in-law, Maria.
Vincent Price (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993)
Price was cremated and his ashes scattered over Point Dume in Southern California, US.
Mary Shelley (August 30, 1797 – February 1851)
According to Jane Shelley, Mary Shelley had asked to be buried with her mother and father; but in order to fulfil Mary Shelley’s wishes, Percy Florence and his wife Jane had the coffins of Mary Shelley’s parents exhumed and buried with her in Bournemouth, UK.
Bram Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912)
Stoker is buried at Golders Green Crematorium, London, UK.
