bFrom the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guant namo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares. --iThe New York Times Book Reviewi pThree thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern Americab pFrom the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, iThe Penguin Book of Helli takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's iInfernoi, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints'