Several years ago, I visited New Orleans for Halloween.  While at the Westgate Gallery — at that time, the world’s only gallery devoted to the necromantic arts — I met a mortician who told me a story that still makes me shiver.  I’d love to share it with you:

This was filmed by Samuel Klatchko at the Hypnodrome, during the book tour for Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual.