title: Day of the Dead Handbook
author:  Denise Alvarado 
description: Denise Alvarado was born and raised in the "Hoodoo Capital of the World," New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a ritual artist and independent researcher with degrees in cultural anthropology and psychology, and she has over 40 years experience in the conjure arts and mysticism. She is the author of several books, including the Voodoo Doll Spellbook: A Compendium of Ancient and Contemporary Spells and Rituals, the Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook, The Conjurer's Guide to St. Expedite, and Gypsy Wisdom, Spells, Charms and Folklore. She is coauthor of Workin' in da Boneyard and Crossroads Mamas' 105 Spiritual Baths for Every Occasion with Madrina Angelique, and the Hoodoo Almanacs, coauthored with Carolina Dean and Alyne Pustanio. She is also the founder and Editor in Chief of Hoodoo and Conjure Quarterly and Hoodoo and Conjure New Orleans Magazine Journals.
zlib_text: WHAT THE DEAD K NOW
  LAURA LIPPMAN
  
  For Sally Fellows and Doris Ann Norris
  
  The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing;  they
  have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.
  Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished;
  never again will they have any share in all that happens under the
  sun.
  —ECCLESIASTES 9:5 – 6
  
  Contents
  Epigraph
  CHAPTER 1
  Her stomach clutched at the sight of the water tower…
  PART I
  WEDNESDAY
  CHAPTER 2
  “That your phone?”
  CHAPTER 3
  The young doctor took a long time picking his pastry,…
  CHAPTER 4
  Infante took the as-the-crow-flies route to the hospital, traveling
  straight…
  CHAPTER 5
  A radio was playing somewhere. Or perhaps it was a…
  PART II
  THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR (1975)
  CHAPTER 6
  “Take your sister,” their father said, in both girls’ hearing,…
  CHAPTER 7
  There was a vending machine in the motel room, actually…
  
  CHAPTER 8
  The bus shelter on Forest Park Avenue was a more…
  CHAPTER 9
  Woodlawn Avenue was busier than usual th