{"product_id":"the-oxford-book-of-the-supernatural","title":"The Oxford Book of the Supernatural","description":"From the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marleys ghost  to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth  to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stokers Dracula  we have always been fascinated by things that go \"bump in the night.\" The supernatural has chilled our hearts and has fired our imaginations  and it has fueled the writings of our greatest authors  from Odysseuss journey to the underworld in Homer  to Fausts bargain with Mephistopheles in Goethe. The Oxford Book of the Supernatural compiles some of the very best writings on this fearsome subject  drawing from both ancient and modern  from East and West  and from Christian  Islamic  and Buddhist traditions. Here readers will enter a foreboding realm of ghosts and vampires  werewolves and witches  dreams and telepathy  demonic possession and near-death experiences. Drawing from both factual accounts and the finest works of literature  and including writers ranging from Homer to Hardy  Pliny to Primo Levi  and Apuleius to A.S. Byatt  Enright offers material that probes the dark corner where the supernatural and natural worlds collide  igniting our deepest anxieties and fears. At times touching  grotesque  eerie  and frightening  The Oxford Book of the Supernatural will interest anyone who is curious about the supernatural or the occult. But whether you believe in the unearthly or not  this literate anthology will satisfy what Virginia Woolf has called \"the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid.\"","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44925853204533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0192142011","price":91.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0192142011_e26d4165-90a6-476f-b13e-e5b950e52e41.jpg?v=1772676881","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-book-of-the-supernatural","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}