The Penguin Book of Demons

di Various (Autore)

Scott G. Bruce (Curatore)

Penguin Books Ltd, 2025

For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate – otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation and moral decline. Drawing from three thousand years of religious traditions and world literature, The Penguin Book of Demons follows these supernatural creatures – and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them – through accounts across cultures and continents, including: the daimones of ancient Greece and Rome; the giant, biblical half humans known as Nephilim who stalked the earth before the Great Flood; corrupted angels, condemned to eternity in Hell; the djinn of Islamic Arabia; the female, child-eating gelloudes of Byzantium; the seductive incubi and succubi of northern Europe; the animal spirits of early modern China; and the cannibalistic wendigo of Native American folklore. From demonic possession to black magic, these accounts give life to a spellbinding, skin-crawling history of the paranormal.

• Autore: Various
• Curatore: Scott G. Bruce
• Editore: Penguin Books Ltd
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• Peso: 500 gr.
• EAN: 9780143137863

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