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“Odyssesus in the House of Death” (Book 11: The Kingdom of the Dead) from The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles. Translation copyright © 1996 by Robert Fagles. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“Pliny Contemplates the Existence of Ghosts” from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, translated with an introduction by Betty Radice (Penguin Classics, 1963, reprinted 1969). Copyright © Betty Radice, 1963, 1969.
“A Mistress of the Graves” from Civil War by Lucan, translated by Matthew Fox. Translation copyright © 2012 by Matthew Fox. Used by permission of Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“An Army White As Snow” from Relatio de duobus ducibus, translated by Christopher A. Jones. Used by permission of Christopher A. Jones.
“The Ravenous Dead” from Seven Viking Romances: Arrow-Odd, King Gautrek, Halfdan Eysteinsson, Bosi and Herraud, Egil and Asmund, Thorstein Mansion-Might, Helgi Thorisson, translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards (Penguin Classics, 1985). Copyright © Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards, 1985.
“Old Ghosts, New Laws” from Eyrbyggja Saga, translated with an introduction and notes by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards (Penguin Classics, 1989). Translation copyright © Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards, 1972, 1989.
“The Torments of Tantalus” from Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca (Penguin Classics, 2011). Translation copyright © R. Scott Smith, 2011. All rights reserved.
“When Night Draws Swiftly Darkling On” from A Treatise of Ghosts by Noel Taillepied, translated by Montague Summers (London, Fortune Press, 1933).
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Bruce, Scott G. (Scott Gordon), 1967– editor.
Title: The Penguin book of the undead: fifteen hundred years of supernatural encounters / edited by Scott G. Bruce.
Description: New York: Penguin Books, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016012232 (print) | LCCN 2016023478 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143107682 | ISBN 9780698406605 ()
Subjects: LCSH: Ghosts. | Vampires. | Zombies.
Classification: LCC BF1461 .P4345 2016 (print) | LCC BF1461 (ebook) | DDC 133.1—dc23
Cover art: Anton Semenov
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