Go to Hell - A Heated History of the Underworld (Paperback)

Close your eyes and picture -- just for a moment -- hell. Fire? Demons? Eternal torment?
Well, yes -- that's the place, in one very hot nutshell. But that's not all there is to the forbidding world beneath us. For a few millennia now, we mortals have imagined and reimagined hell in countless ways: as a realm of damnation, as an inspiration for highest art, as a setting for the lowest of lowbrow comedy. One might conclude that for all our good intentions to enter para- dise, we can't seem to get enough vivid details of its counterpart, hell.
Provocative, colorful, and damned entertaining, "Go to Hell" takes readers on a tour of the underworld that is both darkly comical and seriously informative. From the frozen hell of the Vikings to the sun-drenched Cayman Islands' town of Hell (where tourists line up to have their postcards aptly postmarked), from Dante's circles of hell to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer's" Hellmouth, "Go to Hell" embraces our evolving relationship with the sinner's final destination, revealing how we truly think of ourselves in "this" world.
What's down below?
Meet HEL, the hideous, half-rotting goddess of the Viking underworld.
Beware the Egyptians' AM-MUT, an unsightly mix of lion, crocodile, and hippo parts, and insatiably hungry for wicked souls.
Visit JIGOKU, a Buddhist realm of eight fiery hells and eight icy hells: an all-you-can-suffer hot-and-cold buffet.
Step into the INFERNO for a tour of Dante's nine circles of the damned...

General

Imprint:	Gallery Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	September 2012
Authors:	Chuck Crisafulli
Dimensions:	201 x 127 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-4767-2562-8
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4767-2562-4
Barcode:	9781476725628

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