Everything you need to understand or teach Footprints in the Snow; Digger's Good-bye by Jim Murphy.
In Murphy's story collection Night Terrors, a grimly humorous figure who calls himself "Digger" is a guide to the stories, most of which feature young adults in frightful trouble. Digger himself does not seem to be in trouble; he follows a gloomy profession and takes a great deal of pleasure in digging graves, but he points out that he has never seen any of the weird stuff he has heard about, and he...