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A man rises from behind a gravestone as a skeleton in a shroud attempts to keep it closed. Etching by J. Haynes after J. Mortimer.

An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.

Hercules brings Alcestis back from the dead and restores her to her husband Admetus. Engraving by L. Desplaces after A. Coypel, 1715.

Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.

Surviving death : a journalist investigates evidence for an afterlife / Leslie Kean.

Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson.

The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts / translated with an introduction and notes by James P. Allen ; edited by Peter Der Manuelian.

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Hercules brings Alcestis back from the dead and restores her to her husband Admetus. Engraving by L. Desplaces after A. Coypel, 1715.

Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.

Surviving death : a journalist investigates evidence for an afterlife / Leslie Kean.

Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson.

The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts / translated with an introduction and notes by James P. Allen ; edited by Peter Der Manuelian.