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  • The Penguin Book of Hell

    by Scott G. Bruce ...
    **"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book ReviewThree thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern AmericaA Penguin Classic**From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Penguin Book of Dragons

    Edited by Scott G. Bruce ...
    **Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones to Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx StormA Penguin Classic**The most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their lethal venom and crushing coils, and as ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Penguin Book of Demons

    Edited by Scott G. Bruce ...
    **Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmaresA Penguin Classic**For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate—otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation, and moral decline. The Penguin Book of Demons summons these supernatural creatures—and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them—across ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Penguin Book of the Undead

    Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

    Edited by Scott G. Bruce ...
    The walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.Since 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe

    Studies in Cluniac History, c. 900–1200

    by Scott G. Bruce ...
    Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe offers a new perspective on the abbey at Cluny, one of the medieval Christianity's most influential institutions. Most historical approaches to Cluny have embraced a predictable "rise and fall" narrative, determined largely by the extent of the abbey's legislative reach. In this volume, Scott G. Bruce instead focuses on Cluny's cultural history ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Vigor Mortis

    The Vitality of the Dead in Medieval Societies

    Edited by Scott G. Bruce, Stephen Gordon ...
    This volume explores the enduring presence and participation of the dead in the lives of premodern people from the Carolingian period to the end of the Middle Ages.Unlike modern states, which erect barriers to separate the dying and the deceased from their families, friends, and associates, premodern societies in western Europe fostered an on-going relationship between the living and the dead that ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet

    Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe

    by Scott G. Bruce ...
    In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed the Alps en route from Rome to Burgundy. Ultimately, the abbot was set free, but the audacity of this abduction outraged Christian leaders and galvanized the will of local lords. Shortly thereafter, Count William of Arles marshaled an army ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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    The Penguin Book of Hell

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Penguin Book of the Undead

    Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

    Narrated by T. Ryder Smith ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    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 Since 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 ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Penguin Book of Demons

    Narrated by Vas Eli ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 20 min

    **Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmaresA Penguin Classic**For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate—otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation, and moral decline. The Penguin Book of Demons summons these supernatural creatures—and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them—across ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Penguin Book of Dragons

    Narrated by Vivienne Leheny ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    **Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones to Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx StormA Penguin Classic**The most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their lethal venom and crushing coils, and as ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Penguin Book of Exorcisms

    Narrated by Dennis Logan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 37 min

    **Haunting accounts of real-life exorcisms through the centuries and around the world, from ancient Egypt and the biblical Middle East to colonial America and twentieth-century South AfricaA Penguin Classic**Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. The signs of spirit possession have been documented for thousands of years and across religions and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook