Perhaps this wasn’t my best choice in bedtime reading, I’m surprised I didn’t have nightmares but it was an absolutely fascinating read. The subject matter - who knew that this was such an extensive area- was incredibly well researched with astonishing rigour. The number of examples of this macabre subject is quite vast which came as a bit of a shock. Each one is treated with respect and the detail that it deserves to paint a really detailed picture. Fascinating, compelling and thought provoking reading but perhaps not for the faint hearted.

NetGalley, Helen Frost

This books shares the harrowing stories of people's throughout history who met the most terrifying of ends.
It's a challenge to get through any of the tales without the feeling of claustrophobia setting in.
This book balances the fears with fascinating histories and osteology. Its very accessible for both the expert in and the layman.
You will travel the world with each haunting case study and realise more and more that maybe a bell attached to your coffin may not be such a bad idea at all...

NetGalley, Erin Limmack

Akbuk author explores her darkest fears in latest book, 'Buried Alive'

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

I absolutely LOVED this book!!
The stories of those who were buried alive, either intentionally or unintentionally are so bizarre! I could not stop reading, and this was one of those books that will freak you out, yet morbidly keep you fully engaged.

These stories range from ancient to the more present day, and are full of as much detail as is available. Reading before bed may cause your dreams to be a bit wacky, but once you start reading, you will not want to put this book down.

Wander through these pages, and see if you have a fear of being buried alive! There were some methods that were used to ensure that a person was "truly dead" (and here I have visions of BRING OUT YOUR DEAD playing), and some were truly weird. I can see the wanting to be sure, but goodness, don't try these at home folks.

Enjoy! I loved this book - from its weird to its accidental oopses.

NetGalley, Rebecca Hill

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Buried Alive by AJ Griffiths-Jones is a bone-chilling book details loads of premature burials, accidental interments, live burial/sacrificial rites, murder, and deliberate live burials to make and break records. Premanture burials have struck terror into the minds of so many for thousands of years. Taphophobia is the fear of being buried and waking up alive and has affected thousands of people throughout history. In fact, the American Society for Prevention of Premature Burial was necessitated. I understand that, especially when medical technology was not as advanced as it is today. People appeared dead in comatose and apopletic states and death-ike trances. Some poor souls were paralyzed and couldn't move, silent witnesses to their own funerals. Others were fortunate to signal to passersby by screams they were alive and were revived and lived days, months or years after.

This book is so riveting, disturbing and gripping it was impossible to put down, yet at times it was necessary for my own sanity! The author describes "dead-houses", miners, safety coffins, wills bequeathing money to someone who would stab or sever arteries to ensure death, left notes to housekeepers with similar instructions and also to have several doctors examine their body, and the Greek method. Ways of determining death are discussed as well.

The story of a vault opened to bury someone years after a woman was buried there is terrifying. Her skeleton sat at the entrance...and fingers were missing. A man was removed from his coffin, clothing shredded and bloody in a desperate attempt to escape.

If you are intrigued by the macabre and weirdly fascinating, this book is for you.

NetGalley, Brenda Carleton

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

AJ Griffiths-Jones does a great job in keeping the reader engaged and had the research to back it up.

NetGalley, Kathryn McLeer