The Penguin Book of Demons by Scott G Bruce

The Penguin Book of Demons by Scott G Bruce

Three thousand years of encounters with the malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares

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.

Scott G. Bruce is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Undead and The Penguin Book of Hell, and the author of three books about the Abbey of Cluny. He is a professor of medieval history at Fordham University in New York City. He worked his way through college as a gravedigger.

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ISBN 13	9780143137863
ISBN 10	0143137867
Title	The Penguin Book of Demons
Author	Scott G Bruce
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2025-01-30
Number of pages	304
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