Well it’s that time of year again where I publish the annual Gravecast Holiday Gift Guide. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or perhaps Kwanzaa. These gifts I have listed are sure to brighten up the faces of anyone on your shopping list who is hard to buy for, or has macabre thoughts, interests, & tendencies. So without further adieu here is my list. Direct links will be provided where you can buy these splendid gifts.

First on the list is the 2012 “Year in Death” calendar. To give you a little background on how this fabulous calendar came about. The calendar started out in 2010. The popularity of the “Year In Death” calendar pretty much skyrocketed when it was first published. Needless to say the creators of the calendar decided to create the 2011, and now 2012 editions of the calendar. Here’s a quote from Mark Masek about the soon to be famous “Year In Death” calendar.

Once again, “The Year in Death” calendar will help you remember and honor your favorite celebrities and well-known names from history on the anniversary of their passing. For every day of the year, we identify a celebrity who died on that day, the year they died, and the cause of death. Also, for each month, we feature an original photo montage, designed and created especially for “The Year in Death” calendar by Scott Michaels, founder of Dearly Departed Tours, the man behind the phenomenal Find-A-Death website, and L.A.’s No. 1 Death Hag. And once again this year, the calendar is co-created, co-sponsored and co-presented by your dear friends at The Adipocere Society and CemeteryGuide.com. -Mark Masek CemeteryGuide.com

If your interested in purchasing the 2012 Year In Death Calendar you should visit CemeteryGuide.com

Next on the 2011 Gravecast Holiday Gift Guide list are the marvelous “Death Hag Swag” and other morbidly useful goodies being sold on the Find A Death website. Scott Michaels who owns Find A Death.com, along with the highly recommended Dearly Departed Tours in Hollywood. Recently had some tastefully classy t-shirts created to promote his website Find A Death, and sister  company Dearly Departed Tours. On the F.A.D. store which you can find by visiting Find A Death.com you will find a nice assortment of t-shirts, license plate frames, the DVD’s Dearly Departed Vol. 1, and The Six Degree’s of Helter Skelter, along with some celebrity memorabilia with a ghoulish twist.

If the above sites don’t suit your tastes which they more than likely will. Let me introduce you to The Skeletons In The Closet Gift Shoppe THE official gift shop for the L.A. County Coroners office. Here’s a little morbid trivia for you, there are only two coroners offices in the United States which have a gift shop. L.A. being one of them, the other being the Las Vegas Coroners office. Needless to say you will no doubt find something that will entice your interests.

Next up, if the above items do not suit your macabre tastes, for the upcoming Holiday gift giving extravaganza. You might be interested in the book “L.A.’s Graveside Companion: Where The VIP’s RIP”. Written by the grave hunting story telling genius, and frequent contributor to Gravecast, Steve Goldstein. If you do buy the book on Amazon which is linked above, you might also be interested in the companion DVD “Grave Hunting With Steve: A Journey Beneath Los Angeles”

And finally I can’t forget the e-book “Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills: The Unauthorized Guide” by Mark Masek, who is another contributor to Gravecast. I do not own this e-book “yet” BUT I do own other e-books Mark has published and let me tell you, Mark is one of the people in the know when it comes to Hollywood celebrity gravesites. On a lighter note, if your interested in purchasing his “unauthorized” guides to Forest Lawn Glendale, or Hollywood Forever. I invite you to check out the Amazon Kindle Store.