The work of a cemetery attendant is boring and monotonous. The elderly gravedigger whiled away another working day as best he could. But fate and a faulty freezer in the cemetery gatehouse gave him entertainment in the form of a young electrician. A naive guy, ready to believe any story told to him.

Simon Clark, “The Gravedigger's Tale”, 1989 ©Konstantin Sergievsky, “Tales of a Gravedigger”, translation  2018 ©Publication: Online magazine “DARKER” No. 6 '18 (87)Translation is licensed in accordance with the Creative Commons License (version 3.0).Free and unhindered placement of this file, as well as its contents (the entire text or its fragments) on any Internet resources is permitted.