Publications

Book

Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal (Routledge, 2022)


Articles & Essays

Itinerary: From Egypt to Portugal, via the First World War (Mummy Stories)

What did women fast for when they fasted for God? (Lady Science)

How Death Positive Women Kickstarted A Civil War (The Order of the Good Death)

How 19th century “harlot wards” scrutinized women’s bodies in the name of public health (Lady Science)

How Harry Potter May Have Been Influenced by the Uniforms of University Students in Portugal (Mental Floss)

Soft Fascism (History Today)

What’s Under the Bejeweled Clothes of a Catacomb Saint? (Hyperallergic)

Why Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (Atlas Obscura)

What is Dark Tourism, and Why are we Drawn to it? (TalkDeath)

Burying the enemy: The Nazi graves of Portugal (The Order of the Good Death)

Why I read books about death and you should too (The Tempest)

Am I too attached to a long-dead Portuguese serial killer? (The Order of the Good Death)

Cemetery Overcrowding is Leading Europe to Recycle Burial Plots (TalkDeath)

Unearthing Portugal’s Wine of the Dead, a Relic From the Napoleonic Wars (Atlas Obscura)

See an Alarmingly Well-Preserved Human Head in a Jar at This Portuguese University (Atlas Obscura)

Featured in A Century of Strange!, the 15th installment in the bestselling Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! series

With Non-Believing Feet on Holy Ground (Catapult)

This 680-Year-Old Saint’s Hand Has Never Decomposed (Atlas Obscura)


Short Fiction

Elegy for a Slaughtered Swine (PodCastle)

A Slumbering Storm (Strange Horizons)

The Lady of the House of Mirrors (Daughters of Frankenstein, Lethe Press)

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