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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  Copyright © 2018 by Lillian Marek
  
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  ISBN 978-0-9990180-2-6
  
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  She was utterly still, staring at him for a moment, and then flew to her feet
  so quickly that Philip was not sure he had actually seen her move. One moment
  she was sitting, the next she was not. The movement must have startled him
  enough to make him je