title: Encounters With Death: A Compendium of Anthropomorphic Personifications of Death from Historical to Present Day Phenomenon
author:  Leilah Wendell 
description: Ms. Wendell's latest book "Encounters With Death" brings her subject closer to the mainstream... -- <i>Fate magazine</i>
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