28. Marlowe Cemetery

Presumably, the Marlowe Cemetery began in a time before the need for funeral plots was as great as it is today; otherwise, the people establishing the cemetery would have done so in a location that wasn’t practically a swamp. The ground is too soft here to adequately serve as a cemetery, but the infrastructure’s already in place, meaning that despite its unsuitability to the purpose, it remains the cemetery. On rainy days, a vicious fog rolls across the lowland of the cemetery proper, and only the mausoleums of the very wealthy rise above the miasma. This was also once intended to be a middle-class neighborhood, but the vagaries of the land soon revealed themselves, and the short lived middle-class neighborhood quickly became a maudlin lower-class neighborhood.

Background

The Marlowe Cemetery neighborhood once included a beautiful park in its environs, but a lack of money after the mayoral scandal in the late 1980s meant that the city had to use land it already owned to erect the new morgue, which the overflowing hospital vaults at Morgan County Medical Center required. Now the park is gone, replaced by an ugly brick building that morbidly overlooks the decrepit Marlowe graveyard, itself no paragon of gothic grandeur.

Alternative Name(s)

Morgue

Type

District

Location under

New Castle