A review by lucyb
The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters by Scott G. Bruce

3.0

I read this as a potential teaching resource, and am looking forward to using it as such. It would fit nicely either in a medieval course (mine's "The Living and the Dead in Medieval Literature") or in a longitudinal survey of the supernatural, perhaps more selectively used. The readable translations would, I think, also be appreciated by fans of the mysterious and the macabre, the gothic and the ghostly. I don't anticipate having much luck getting undergrads to read the apparatus, but it's useful, and Bruce's framing material should be appreciated by the student and the enthusiast alike.