In honor of Halloween, we thought it might be fun to share where some of the most revered writers have been laid to rest:
EDGAR ALLAN POE (who is probably most famous for his poem, The Raven) was buried anonymously in 1849 in Baltimore. A cousin eventually ordered a tombstone but it got damaged before it was installed. It was twenty-six years after Poe’s death that a monument was erected.
MARY SHELLEY (author of Frankenstein) was buried in Bournemouth, England.
BRAM STROKER (author of Dracula) was cremated and his ashes are kept at Golders Green Crematorium in London, England.
IAN FLEMING (author of James Bonds books, such as Goldeneye) was buried in Kent, England.
THOMAS MANN (author of Death in Venice) is buried in Kilchberg Village Cemetery in Zurich.
OSCAR WILDE (author of The Importance of Being Ernest) has an elaborate tomb in Paris’ Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
CHARLES DICKENS (author of The Christmas Carol) was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, London.
RUDYARD KIPLING (author of The Jungle Book) joins fellow writer, Charles Dickens, in London’s Westminster Abbey.
*This information was compiled from Writers Digest (Nov/Dec ’13 issue)
