About the book:

Dave Gallagher mows the lawns and digs the graves at cemeteries in his hometown on Cape Cod. He also keeps the peace between the ghosts inhabiting those cemeteries. In the world of Living in Cemeteries, wrongdoing is atoned for by a person's descendants. Spirits decapitate relatives of serial killers and lay pox blankets over men responsible for the Trail of Tears. The only way Dave can learn of his pre-ordained death is by traveling the New England countryside, visiting haunted cemeteries, asking familial ghosts what fate has in store. A gruesome death, or a happily-ever-after with his longtime girlfriend, Jessica? Marauding Spirit-whipped bulls and deadly nightshade, a doomed roommate and a wayward crypt-sleeper each derail Dave's path to understanding, but nothing presents more of a challenge than his silent, long dead father. The man's refusal to speak leaves Dave wondering what evils his parents committed. How dark is the shade cast by his family tree? The only way to find out is to speak to the dead, but Dave's not always going to like the answers he receives.

About the author:

Corey Farrenkopf is a Cape Cod based writer. His debut novel, Living in Cemeteries, is forthcoming from JournalStone in April of 2024. He is the Fiction Editor for the Cape Cod Poetry Review. His work has appeared in The Southwest Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Tiny Nightmares, Catapult, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Bourbon Penn, Flash Fiction Online, Wigleaf, The Florida Review, Reckoning, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net award. He has also been nominated for both the Year’s Best Horror Anthology and the Year’s Best Horror and Dark Fantasy Anthology. He is represented by Marie Lamba of the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. He currently resides in a house on a hill with his wife, Gabrielle, and their tiny dog, Ooli. He works as a librarian.