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RR 2017/004 Encyclopedia of Spirits and Ghosts in World Mythology Theresa Bane McFarland Jefferson, NC 2016 vii + 169 pp. ISBN 978 1 4766 6355 5 (print) ;ISBN 978 1 4766 2339 9 (e-book) £41.95 $39.95 Available in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Africa from Eurospan
Theresa Bane, a "professional vampirologist" with an appearance on William Shatner's Weird or What? to her name, has compiled a detailed - and daunting! - catalogue of things that go bump in the night. Drawn from many different cultures and religions from Ancient Egyptian to Zoroastrian, her list of "entities of the spirit realm" includes hundreds of "creatures and beings from the world's folklores, legends and mythologies". Part of a larger work on mythological creatures - "the size of the first four Harry Potter books" - the author wisely decided to separate her collection of spirits and ghosts, beasts and monsters (Bane, 2016a, 2016b) and giants and humanoids (Bane, 2016a, 2016b) (RR...