A unique feast of offerings exploring a variety of magical and mythological perspectives on death, dying, mortality and beyond. With contributions from sixteen international writers, this collection offers a great diversity of both historical and contemporary perspectives including both experiential accounts and scholarly research.

Communicating with the Blessed Dead by Tina Georgitsis
Eating with the Dead: Funeral Meal Practices by Tylluan Penry
Cultivating the Dead: the Path of Lilies and Water by Chad Barber
Don't Fear the Reaper: the Evolution of the Death card in Tarot by Emily Carding
Behind the Glasses of Ghuedhe: Life in Death and Love in Both by Kyle Fite
The Death of Baphomet by Julian Vayne
Papa Gede, Petit Gede: Spirits of Death in Haitian Vodou by Sophia Fisher
The Truth about Zombies, or How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Kim Huggens
Traditional Craft and the Cult of the Dead by Michael Howard
The Setian Way of Death by Mogg Morgan
Demeter's Wrath: How the Eleusinian Mysteries Attempted to Cheat Death by Caroline Tully
Dogs and Death - Guardians, Omens and Psychopomps by Ivy Kerrigan
Tomb-Cults, Caves, Stars and Blessed Isles: Heroic Interactions with the Otherworld and Life after Death by Karen F. Pierce
'Now I am Harvested and I Die' the Theatre of Sacrifice in The Book of the Provider by Peg Aloi
Ascending to the Imperishable: Star Lore and Death in Ancient Egypt by Dave Moore
Ars Moriendi by Humberto Maggi