Hey all, it's NPR's Book of the Day podcast. I'm Glenn Weldon. You don't have to be a goth to enjoy a stroll through a cemetery, especially this time of year with the leaves crunching under your feet.

Author Mariana Enriquez was a goth kid, but she says her lifelong fascination with graveyards is rooted in something deeper than her teenage eyeliner and black nail polish.

She was born in Argentina during a time when the government was disappearing a lot of people.

An entire generation was killed by the military dictatorship without graves to mark their passing.

Enriquez's latest book, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave, is a celebration of final resting places around the world.

Places she's visited, stories she's gathered.

She talked to Aisha Roscoe about her fascination with sepulchres, tombs, cacetacombs, and humble church graveyards.

Here's Aisha.

Cemetery might not be everyone's idea of fun, but for Argentine author Mariana Enriquez, they're

full of life. They're a doorway into history, memory, and sometimes the supernatural. Enriquez, known for

her chilling fiction, turns to real resting places around the world.

In her new nonfiction book, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, a series of personal short stories she's collected over the years while traveling to cemeteries across four continents.

Mariana Enriquez joins us now. Thank you for being here. Oh, thank you so much for

having me. I'm very glad. Why are you so interested in cemeteries? They seem like your

favorite place to visit. The first reason is I used to be a goth when I was young, like a goth from

age six or something. With the dark hair, wearing black all the time sort of thing.

Reading Edgar Allan Poe.

And then with the years, I learned that all those cemeteries have a lot to say about life,

about the history of the people.

And then Argentina in the 70s, the decade where I was born,

had a dictatorship that made a lot of bodies disappeared.

Therefore, there's a generation of people that were killed by the government

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