Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, as well as in superhero comics, films, and cultural and art contexts such as Ian Hamilton Finley's “Little Sparta,” the poetic verses from the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in South Africa, and the Australian wilderness.

Contributions by: Feryal Cubukcu, Nicolas Gaspers, Marguerite Gibson, Ekaterina Kochetkova, Frances Livings, Zennure Köseman, Sabine Planka, Isabelle Schwarz, Miriam Strieder, Adrian Tait, Philip van der Merwe, Paul Venzo