The Book of the Dead
Alan K. Russell, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton and Wilkie Collins's The Book of the Dead (1986) is a horror and circus fiction story collection. It takes readers to Toledo in Carnival. It features Montresor, Fortunato and Luchresi. Readers will find themes of Fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition and crime.
5 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 3 editions.
It runs to roughly 382 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.
Quick answers
Who wrote The Book of the Dead?
The Book of the Dead was written by Alan K. Russell, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton and Wilkie Collins and first published in 1986.
What genre is The Book of the Dead?
It is usually shelved as Horror and Circus & Carnival.
How long is The Book of the Dead?
The median edition has 382 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to The Book of the Dead?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Black Cat and Other Tales (Descent Into the Maelstrom / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Raven), Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart) and 10 Creepiest Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Raven / Tell-Tale Heart).
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