Publication

2001 - University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah

Language

English

Word Count

36,750 words, Guess

Page Count

147 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10087480681X
  • ISBN-139780874806816
  • LibraryThing2296715
  • Library of Congress Control Number00012176
  • OCLC Control Number45375134
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780874806816
  • Open LibraryOL6777515M

Classifications

  • DDC081
  • LCCAC8 .O38 2001
  • LCCAC8.O38 2001

Description

"Grave goods - objects placed with the deceased at burial - represent a material and metaphorical bridge between life and afterlife. Grave Goods, the book, walks us across that bridge from the world we comfortably label "real" to what lies beyond: the realm of spirits, psychics, untimely deaths, strange disappearances, and occult phenomena. With wit, wry curiosity, and redemptive irony John P. O'Grady peels back the surface of the seemingly normal to reveal the dubious, the inexplicable, the outlandish." "Grave Goods includes ghost stories, macabre modern legends, and metaphysical investigations, all informed by the natural sciences, history, philosophy, literature, and mythology. From laugh-out-loud funny to eerily thoughtful, these essays reveal the natural world as a place of unnatural surprises and strange beauty."--BOOK JACKET.

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