{"product_id":"penguin-book-of-demons","title":"Penguin Book Of Demons By Various","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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57621253259646,"sku":"NW9780143137863","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780143137863.jpg?v=1783196290","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/penguin-book-of-demons","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}