TheCemeteryClub.com Food & Gift Baskets [email protected] Home Photos Member Photos Surveys & Banners Suggested Reading Links Blog Calendar Genealogy Corner Join Our E-mail List JOIN OUR E-MAIL LIST! Sign up here for the Interview with the Taphophile group list. Meet others with the same cemetery interests as you and keep up-to-date on happenings with TheCemeteryClub.com. Epitaphs Magazine Subscriptions About Writing Tips for Epitaphs Shop! Online Catalog & Store Disarming Charms View Guestbook Sign Guestbook As well as being a cemetery maven, I am also a Tastefully Simple consultant. So I thought, why not combine the two things I love? Cemetery stuff and food? And this is what came about. Quick Links 1910s Mourning Dress Miniature Pictorial Album of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park SOLD Room Thermometer - Tims Funeral Home SOLD Nail Clippers - Pollock-Jowett Funeral Home Thimble - Wendt Funeral Home SOLD Rain Bonnet - Gibbons Funeral Home Living Dead Dolls SOLD Funeral Home & Crematory Potholder SOLD Last Supper Fan SOLD Ritter Funeral Home Lighter SOLD Women's Mourning Hat Set SOLD New T-shirt Styles (CafePress.com) Second-hand Books Prices reduced Cemetery Walkabout - Gift Basket                 This is the perfect basket of goodies for the taphophile in your life. It has everything needed for a day at the cemetery. - One copy of "Cemetery Art" (the book of symbolism and more by Minda Powers-Douglas - One bag of Twisty Grahams (delicious honey graham cookies that look like pretzels!) - One bag of Blue Aztec Chips - One jar of Corn, Black Bean Salsa - - Cost: ? Coming Soon! Mini Pictorial Album for Cemetery Miniature Pictorial Album of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale, California. "10 Natural Color Prints - Reproduced from Kodachromes" This is a little gem of a book. Spiral-bound with clear plastic cover. It measures about three inches across. SOLD [email protected] Room Thermometer - Tims Funeral Home This room thermometer is from Tims Funeral Home, located in Altus and Hollis, Oklahoma. Phone numbers listed are 2-1212 and 8-3377. Thermometer still works! This was a self-standing mural/photo thermometer, but the cardboard easel is no longer on the back. Glass covers the image and thermometer. Metal frame. Measure approximately 5 inches across. SOLD Nail Clippers - Pollock-Jowett Funeral Home Nail clippers on chain from Pollock-Jowett Funeral Home, G.H. Pollock, Director Measuring just over an inch, these handy little nail clippers are in excellent condition. Black and silver with a bead chain/keychain. While emery boards are common, funeral home advertising nail clippers are not. Especially in this interesting round style. Mint condition. Rare find. Price: $20 Rain Bonnet - Gibbons Funeral Home   Rain bonnet from Gibbons Funeral Home, located at 211 North Jackson, Harrisburg, Illinois. Phone 253-7136. Royal blue case, approximately 2.5 inches long. I have not removed the rain hat since I purchased this, so I do no know the quality of it. It seems to be in excellent condition, though. Comes from the days when women cared so much about their hairdos that they'd even wear a plastic bonnet! Price: Make an offer Sewing Kit - Lipstick size Antique brass emergency sewing kit with thimble from Illinois funeral home. More information to come. SOLD Exclusive Living Dead Dolls™ set: The Great Zombini and Viv with Real Vivisect action!         Exclusive Living Dead Dolls™ set: Magician, The Great Zombini with his assistant Viv (as in vivisection). This set returns the fun to the gore that makes Living Dead Dolls™ so cool to own and display. Limited Edition. Has been opened but never displayed. Still in all original packaging. Living Dead Dolls Tower Records Exclusive The Great Zombini and Viv with Real Vivisect action! They've passed away, now its time to play. This 2-Pack features the Great Zombini and his assistant Viv. Each figure stands 10" and are packaged in a windowed twin coffin. The Great Zombini has a trick for you all His Lonely assistant split by his saw. For Spooky Kids Ages 15 and up © 2000 Mezco Toyz. Is currently being sold online for as much as $59.99 - $89.95 for the set. SOLD SOLD Thimble Old plastic or celluloid advertising funeral home thimble for Wendt Funeral Home, East Moline, Illinois. SOLD Funeral Home & Crematory Pot Holder SOLD Funeral Home Fan - Last Supper SOLD Ritter Funeral Home Lighter SOLD Women's Mourning Hat Set Beautiful two-piece hat set for a lady. Black velvet crown with triangular black lace. No rips or tears. SOLD Brand new shirts available at CafePress! "What will your epitaph say?" The most comfortable t-shirt ever! Our 100% cotton, Hanes Authentic Tagless T-Shirt is preshrunk, durable and guaranteed. 6.1 oz. 100% cotton. Standard fit (but this design is available on an assortment of shirt styles, hats, bumper stickers and more). View all our T-shirts - starting at $10.99! Second-hand Books The Ghost Writer by John Harwood This debut novel by Harwood is eerie and wonderful. From Publishers Weekly: "Sly nods to spooky literary spinsters—Henry James's Miss Jessel and Dickens's Miss Havisham—set the tone for this confident debut, a gothic suspense novel with a metatextual spin. Gerard Freeman grows up on the windswept southern coast of Australia in the late 20th century with a controlling mother strangely silent about the details of her childhood in England. His only solace is steadfast English pen friend, Alice, to whom he confides everything. What was Gerard's mother, Phyllis, hoping to escape when she left England? The protagonist slowly pieces together his mother's past with the aid of short stories written by his great-grandmother, Viola. These cunning tales, filled with supernatural occurrences and séances, are seamlessly embedded in the main narrative, offering Gerard—and readers—enticing clues into his troubled family's history. After Phyllis's death, her newly liberated son travels to England, hoping to learn more and to pursue elusive Alice. As he searches through the country house his mother inhabited long ago, Gerard finds past and present fusing in horrifying fashion. In the hands of a lesser novelist, sustaining several plot lines might have been difficult. But the novel links textual investigation and sublimated passion, building to a satisfying, unexpected ending." - Very good condition, read once $3.50 (retails for $14)Price reduced! I Am Legend by Richard Matheson From Amazon.com review: "One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors--including Stephen King and Dean Koontz--who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary." - Very good (retails for $14.95)SOLD Will Storr Vs. the Supernatural by Will Storr (non-fiction) From Publishers Weekly: "Accompanying a self-described demonologist in Philadelphia for a magazine story, London journalist and self-described skeptic Storr quickly came face to face with evidence he couldn't dismiss-a close encounter with a poltergeist ("something had touched me, hard enough to launch me to my feet") and a divination aficionado who may very well have been possessed. In the account that follows, Storr takes readers into some of the more disturbing and disturbed corners of modern ghost-hunting, whipping up a chilling, funny, thought-provoking page-turner. With great care and greater humor, Storr accompanies paranormal investigators famous and obscure, ghost hunting clubs and perplexed homeowners, taking time to research famous cases and discuss his findings with the experts, as well as the witnesses and victims of hauntings. The evidence he finds-from orbs of light that dance on-camera to spectral voices recorded on tape to seemingly possessed individuals-proves only slightly more fascinating than the folks who pursue it, a grand collection of kooks, swindlers, skeptics and true believers. Storr grapples mightily with the unknown, and though his consideration of the slippery nature of reality and the mystery of death is fascinating, it never overwhelms the narrative; indeed, Storr wisely gives the best lines to his subjects, recording them faithfully at their most profound (quoth one famous, long-practicing investigator, "I'm not sure what reality is anymore") as well as their most nonsensical (a haunted house-sitter spends his time performing "experiments where I pretend I'm slapping someone," in the hopes he'll one day do the haunting). Covering an impressive range of modern ghostly phenomenon-including a hilarious visit to the popular British TV show Most Haunted-this is a fun, fascinating and at times frightening read for anyone with an interest in the supernatural." - Good condition $3 (retails for $13.95)SOLD SPECIAL OFFER AT THECEMETERYCLUB.COM STORE! Last updated 1-8-08 Copyright 2004-2007 by Minda Powers-Douglas. All rights reserved. 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