Ancient Ghost Stories

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• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781804175996
• Edition: 0
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction

Ghosts and apparitions abound across the peoples of the early civilisations, from the Ancient Egyptians, the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and the Vikings too. Phantoms of the dead, warning apparitions and necromancy – there are many stories of ghosts to be found in the retold literature of ancient peoples: 'Khonsemhab and the Ghost' and 'The Adventure of Setne Khamwas with the Mummies', both from Ancient Egypt; 'Philinnion and Machates' from Ancient Rome; spirits featured in Homer's Odyssey, from Ancient Greece; tales of Babylonian demons and the netherworld; and stories of fire apparitions from Japan. The Vikings too had their fair share of ghosts, such as crop up in the 13th-century Icelandic Laxdaela Saga. These stories are all brought together in this new collection for an intriguing insight into the spirit world of early cultures. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Sumerian Stories of the Netherworld
• The Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul
• Soul and Body
• The Daughter of the Prince of Bakhtan and the Possessing Spirit
• Fragments of a Ghost Story (Khonsemhab and the Ghost)
• The Adventure of Setne Khamwas with the Mummies
• Greek and Roman Stories of Haunting
• Greek and Roman Tales of Necromancy
• Greek and Roman Visions of the Dead in Sleep
• Greek and Roman Apparitions of the Dead
• Greek and Roman Warning Apparitions
• Philinnion and Machates
• The Visit to the Dead
• The Liar
• Ghostly Episodes in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana
• Letters from Pliny
• The Story of Damon
• The Vision of Marcus Brutus
• The Haunted Pantry
• Nero’s Mother
• Kî Fâ, or, The Law of Sacrifices
• A Teaching from Confucius
• Japanese Legends of Fire Apparitions
• Yama, the First Man, and King of the Dead
• The Brahman and His Bride
• Inca Demons and Spirits
• A Journey to Xibalba
• The Christianization of Norse Mythology: From Gods to Ghosts
• The Drowning of Thorkell, ad 1026
• Biographies & Sources
• A Taste for the Fantastic
• About this book
• FLAME TREE PUBLISHING