The Last Laugh (a Completely New Collection of Funny Old Epitaphs) Hardcover – January 1, 1968
 
Abandon frowns, all ye who enter here! An amusing new collection of inscriptions from the tombstones of our ancestors, THE LAST LAUGH is a funny bone-tickling delight. Read it yourself, inscribe it to friends, send it secretly to enemies: no one can resist its macabre charms. Almost all the epitaphs in THE LAST LAUGH are authentic, drawn from rare old sources. Even at their funniest, they are often moving tributes to the dear departed of the past and testify to the vitality and good spirits of our long-suffering forebears. They were people who laughed easily, loved courageously, and had long, long memories: "Here lies Ned Hyde because he died. If it had been his sister, we should not have missed her. But would rather it had been his father or for the good of the nation the whole generation."
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