{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-demons","title":"The Penguin Book of Demons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree thousand years of encounters with the malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Demons \u003c\/i\u003efollows 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 304 pages | Published January 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63977886089565,"sku":"9780143137863","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780143137863.jpg?v=1774446792","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-penguin-book-of-demons","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}