Heaviness and moistness are two such textures which predominate. The air around churches we are told, is especially moist and heavy for two reasons. First, because of the emanations of those who assemble there, and second because of the frequent openings of the tombs which emit putrefied air. Like the air, the soil is described as moist, and into it sink more readily the tombstones. Liquids emanate from putrefied bodies.
Graveyards are dense and are surrounded by density.
Walker usually describes them as being located in a thickly peopled area. The ground of the graveyard often swells with bodies. He describes one yard as having been raised six feet from the original surface. Masses upon masses of bones accrue. Another texture which emerges from Walker's text is the broken and fragmented.