A House-Boat on the Styx
Being Some Account of the Diverse Doings of the Associated Shades
by John Kendrick Bangs, Peter Newell, Ohn Kendrick Bangs
FictionHouseboatsFiction, fantasy, historicalFiction, fantasy, collections & anthologiesstyxAmerican literatureFiction, generalFiction, satire
The souls of the dead must cross the Styx, to pass into a Hades-like afterworld. In the first of the twelve stories compiled in A House-Boat on the Styx, the man who ferries the souls across sees a houseboat floating downriver and fears for his livelihood. He is appointed janitor on the boat, where the remaining stories take place between characters from history and mythology.
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Book data: Open Library