The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.
Scott G. Bruce (editor)is the editor of The Penguin Book of Hell, The Penguin Book of Dragons, and The Penguin Book of Demons, and the author of three books about the abbey of Cluny.He is a professor of history at Fordham University in New York City.He worked his way through college as a grave digger.
“The scariest stories you’ll read this Halloween were written 1,000
years ago. This wonderfully fun and creepy anthology, lovingly
curated by Scott Bruce, . . . is ideal for anyone fond of zombies,
ghosts, ghouls, ancient horrors, and dread warnings from beyond the
grave. . . . Along with Penguin’s Book of Ghost
Stories and Book of Witches, it completes a sort of
trilogy of spookiness that is wickedly entertaining, accessible,
and surprisingly informative.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A marvelous treasury of ghostdom. It’s exactly what I wanted to
read. Scott Bruce has done a great job of assembling these accounts
of the uncanny, and I know I shall keep it close by my bed for a
long time." —Philip Pullman, #1 New York Times bestselling author
of The Golden Compass
“This exceptionally well-curated compilation shows that the wide
variety of accounts of the undead have been rampant in literature
long before the Gothic era. . . . Bruce has chosen selections from
numerous cultures, including ancient Greece, Anglo-Norman England,
and medieval Scandinavia. . . . He presents the contents with an
enthusiasm that makes these . . . works accessible to the casual
reader.” —Publishers Weekly
“It succeeds well as an education in how stories of wandering
spirits have reflected throughout history common human anxieties
about death, the disposal of mortal remains, and the fate of the
soul [and] how these fears have changed through the ages and the
ways in which otherworldly accounts have been used to address
them.” —Library Journal
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