{"product_id":"9781451604733","title":"Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld","description":"\u003cb\u003eClose your eyes and picture -- just for a moment -- hell. Fire? Demons? Eternal torment?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Well, yes -- that's the place, in one very hot nutshell. But that's not all there is to the forbidding world beneath us. For a few millennia now, we mortals have imagined and reimagined hell in countless ways: as a realm of damnation, as an inspiration for highest art, as a setting for the lowest of lowbrow comedy. One might conclude that for all our good intentions to enter para- dise, we can't seem to get enough vivid details of its counterpart, hell. \u003cbr\u003e Provocative, colorful, and damned entertaining, \u003ci\u003eGo to Hell\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a tour of the underworld that is both darkly comical and seriously informative. From the frozen hell of the Vikings to the sun-drenched Cayman Islands' town of Hell (where tourists line up to have their postcards aptly postmarked), from Dante's circles of hell to \u003ci\u003eBuffy the Vampire Slayer's\u003c\/i\u003e Hellmouth, \u003ci\u003eGo to Hell\u003c\/i\u003e embraces our evolving relationship with the sinner's final destination, revealing how we truly think of ourselves in \u003ci\u003ethis\u003c\/i\u003e world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhat's down below?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Meet HEL, the hideous, half-rotting goddess of the Viking underworld. \u003cbr\u003e Beware the Egyptians' AM-MUT, an unsightly mix of lion, crocodile, and hippo parts, and insatiably hungry for wicked souls. \u003cbr\u003e Visit JIGOKU, a Buddhist realm of eight fiery hells and eight icy hells: an all-you-can-suffer hot-and-cold buffet. \u003cbr\u003e Step into the INFERNO for a tour of Dante's nine circles of the damned...","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143207698672,"sku":"9781451604733","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451604733_p0.jpg?v=1763836288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451604733","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}