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The Encyclopedia of Hell | 
 enlarge | Author: Miriam Van Scott
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 124335
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0312244428
Dewey Decimal Number: 291.23
EAN: 9780312244422
ASIN: 0312244428
Publication Date: November 30, 1999
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Product Description
The Encyclopedia of Hell is a comprehensive survey of the underworld, drawing information from cultures around the globe and eras throughout history. Organized in a simple-to-use alphabetic format, entries cover representations of the dark realm of the dead in mythology, religion, works of art, opera, literature, theater, music, film, and television. Sources include African legends, Native American stories, Asian folktales, and other more obscure references, in addition to familiar infernal chronicles from Western lore. The result is a catalog of underworld data, with entries running the gamut from descriptions of grisly pits of torture to humorous cartoons lampooning the everlasting abyss. Its extensive cross-referencing also supplies links between various concepts and characters from the netherworld and provides further information on particular theories. Peruse these pages and find out for yourself what history's greatest imaginations have envisioned awaiting the wicked on the other side of the grave.
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 Ridiculously Bad, covered such topics as t-shirts and bubble gum cards but absolutely nothing of real interest. June 25, 2008
Alex Fuentes (Oak Town, NoCal)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a perfect example of pop culture bubblegum pap. It deals with such topics as bubblegum cards and t-shirts but either doesn't mention or very, very superficially such things as: Paradise Lost, Dante's Inferno, the Hieararchy of Hell, The Catholic Church's View of, Demons, Demonology, and so on. This book is truly useless and a waste of time. I can understand if the book was written for 1-6 year olds, it might be entertaining and of some interest but for anyone with any intelligence and/or education it is just horribly bad. So, save yourself some time and money and avoid this purchase. Spend the money to buy anything but this book. Avoid at all costs, can produce mindnumbing stupidity in readers.
 A real contact fromHell February 10, 2008
Gabriel Campos Diaz
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, it is just what it says, a nice center of information about hell, the number of qoutes are amazing, i cpuld be a little bit more detalied but its enough to start an investigation.
 Useful, but needs more hell stuff July 8, 2007
Victoria Ehli (Oregon)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Though I found some of this product useful and I use it for the purposes that I need to use it for. the amount of movies, and modern stuff listed in it including cheesy b budget movies makes the book not always about hell and it inhabitants, and they didn't list things that the levels of hell and their descriptions which would have been nice. It is good for a reference library and might give you some cross stuff if you need to.
 A Note from the Author July 15, 2006
M. L Vanscott (Manassas, VA USA)
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
I'm not sure what motivated the review that contends much is "missing" from this book or if that reviewer was somehow confused, but I wanted to set the record straight. There ARE in fact entries that cover Virgil, Baal, Beelzebub, etc. --- a simple glance at the index can help readers find these. But please do note this is NOT a book on "Demonology" (Amazon has many excellent options that do focus on this subject) but rather on the interpretations of HELL from various cultures, religions and eras. A special emphasis IS given to pop culture and media, since these topics are usually NOT covered by other works on the afterlife, which tend to concentrate mainly on religious and mythic beliefs. Overall, this work is intended as a "primer" for those interested in the diversions as well as intersections about various "infernal" concepts. In fact, this book has been used as source material for programs on The Learning Channel, In Search Of..., The History Channel, NPR and ABC World News among others. It's a great place to start to "learn, so you don't burn!"
Its Media - If you like Media . . . April 19, 2005
Barry Parker (Clio, Michigan)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
I first found this book on the shelves of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Bible study reference section. After using it and know that I would soon move very far away I purchased it for posterity. This has been a helpful purpose. br /It is written at the popular level and is a very easy read. Whereas there are works which you can consult for in depth studies, there is a place for brief texts such as this one. br /If you are interested in a complimation in the form of a dictionary of many different forms of media dealing with hell - this is the book you should buy. br /The breadth of coverage can be illustrated using some of the names of articles. "Hell Mouth" "Clive Barker" "Dante" . The movies, art, TV, literature - what ever has hell in its eye, you may see it in this book. If nothing else it is a conversation starter. br /
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