# The Penguin Book of Demons

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- Authors: [Scott G. Bruce](https://www.bookquiver.com/scott-g-bruce)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2025-01-30

## Description

For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate – otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation and moral decline. Drawing from three thousand years of religious traditions and world literature, The Penguin Book of Demons follows these supernatural creatures – and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them – through accounts across cultures and continents, including: the daimones of ancient Greece and Rome; the giant, biblical half humans known as Nephilim who stalked the earth before the Great Flood; corrupted angels, condemned to eternity in Hell; the djinn of Islamic Arabia; the female, child-eating gelloudes of Byzantium; the seductive incubi and succubi of northern Europe; the animal spirits of early modern China; and the cannibalistic wendigo of Native American folklore. From demonic possession to black magic, these accounts give life to a spellbinding, skin-crawling history of the paranormal.

## Editions

### The Penguin Book of Demons

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-786-3
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2025-01-30
- Language: en_GB