The Penguin Book of the Undead
Penguin Books Ltd
The Penguin Book of the UndeadFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Penguin Classics\nISBN-13: 9780143107682, 978-0143107682\nSynopsis\nSince ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. \n\nSpanning 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 o.
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