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E-newsletter one year: | 2016 |
| Format: | Paperback | Language: | English |
| ISBN: |
9780143107682 |
EAN: |
9780143107682 |
| Synopsis | |
| Since susceptible times, accounts of supernatural process dangle mystified us. Ghost tales as we know them did no longer create till the dreary nineteenth century, however the restless tiring terrorized the premodern creativeness in many kinds, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and private letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of tiring warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, misguided spirits rising from burning carcasses in the construct of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, exhibiting the evolution in our concerned in regards to the skill of tiring souls to attain back to the realm of the living–and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife. The tiring are living again on this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations via the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls. Since susceptible times, accounts of supernatural process dangle mystified us. Ghost tales as we know them did no longer create till the dreary nineteenth century, however the restless tiring terrorized the premodern creativeness in many kinds, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and private letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of tiring warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, misguided spirits rising from burning carcasses in the construct of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, exhibiting the evolution in our concerned in regards to the skill of tiring souls to attain back to the realm of the living and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife.” The walking tiring from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations via the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls. Since susceptible times, accounts of supernatural process dangle mystified us. Ghost tales as we know them did no longer create till the dreary nineteenth century, however the restless tiring terrorized the premodern creativeness in many kinds, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and private letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of tiring warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, misguided spirits rising from burning carcasses in the construct of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, exhibiting the evolution in our concerned in regards to the skill of tiring souls to attain back to the realm of the living and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife.” | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0143107682 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780143107682 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 221980227 |
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| Quantity Of Pages | 320 pages |
| Format | Paperback |
| E-newsletter Date | 2016-09-27 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Publishing Neighborhood |
| E-newsletter one year | 2016 |
| Additional Cramped print | |
| Copyright Date | 2016 |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 8.8 Ounces19459027] |
| Top | 0.9 In. |
| Width | 5.1 In. |
| Length | 7.7 In. |
| Target Viewers | |
| Neighborhood | Alternate |
| Classification Manner | |
| LCCN | 2016-012232 |
| LC Classification Quantity | BF1461.P4345 2016 |
| Dewey Decimal | 133.1 |
| Dewey Edition | 23 |
| Contributors | |
| Edited by | Scott G. Bruce |
| Reviews | |
| “This exceptionally properly-curated compilation reveals that the broad vary of accounts of the undead were rampant in literature long earlier than the Gothic generation. . . . Bruce has chosen picks from rather about a cultures, including susceptible Greece, Anglo-Norman England, and medieval Scandinavia. . . . He gifts the contents with an enthusiasm that makes these . . . works accessible to the informal reader.” — Publishers Weekly | |
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