title: Terror in the Cemetery
author: Edward Honaker
description: Edward Honaker was born in 1950 in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. He lived there until age twenty-two. In 1972 he moved to Roanoke, Va. He still lives there with his wife, Rosalie and their two German Shepherd dogs, Max and Isa. His second novel, Terror in the Cemetery is now available.
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  # The Grave
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Guy de Maupassant
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  
  The seventeenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, at half-
  past two in the morning, the watchman in the cemetery of Besiers, who lived in
  a small cottage on the edge of this field of the dead, was awakened by the
  barking of his dog, which was shut up in the kitchen.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Going down quickly, he saw the animal sniffing at the crack of the door and
  barking furiously, as if some tramp had been sneaking about the house. The
  keeper, Vincent, therefore took his gun and went out.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  His dog, preceding him, at once ran in the direction of the Avenue General
  Bonnet, stopping short at the monument of Madame Tomoiseau.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The keeper, advancing cautiously, soon saw a faint light on the side of the
  Avenue Malenvers, and stealing in among the graves, he came upon a horrible
  act of profanation.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A man