Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys | Mariana Enriquez
336 pages | Hogarth | Paperback | 9.15.2026
An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times).
Cemeteries have great stories and sometimes I steal some for my books.
Mariana Enriquez has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. A goth flaneur among the headstones, she has journeyed across North and South America, Europe and Australia, Paris's catacombs, Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans's above-ground mausoleums, the opulent Recoleta in her hometown of Buenos Aires, and beyond to investigate what the living can learn from the dead.
Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths, hauntology, personal photographs, and more, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave reveals as much about Enriquez's own life and unique sensibility as the graveyards she tours. Fascinating, spooky, and unlike anything else, Enriquez's first work of nonfiction, translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, is as original and startling as the fiction for which she's become so beloved and admired.
Mariana Enriquez has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. A goth flaneur among the headstones, she has journeyed across North and South America, Europe and Australia, Paris's catacombs, Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery, New Orleans's above-ground mausoleums, the opulent Recoleta in her hometown of Buenos Aires, and beyond to investigate what the living can learn from the dead.
Weaving personal stories with reportage, interviews, myths, hauntology, personal photographs, and more, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave reveals as much about Enriquez's own life and unique sensibility as the graveyards she tours. Fascinating, spooky, and unlike anything else, Enriquez's first work of nonfiction, translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, is as original and startling as the fiction for which she's become so beloved and admired.
