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Epilogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2026

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The book’s epilogue offers a personal reflection on graves and burials, beginning with an anecdotal account of a local supermarket built on the site of a former cemetery. This reflection goes on to consider the numerous bodies in the book that have been kept out of the grave or disinterred after burial to unsettle a notion of the grave as a permanent or final resting place. The epilogue ends by returning to the idea of the unburied corpse as the source of entertainment, particularly around the time of Halloween, concluding that anxieties around the unburied corpse still sit alongside entertaining tales of post-mortem reappearance, just as they did when Hannah Beswick’s body was a museum exhibit.

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