Beware...this book is cursed! These strange but true stories of the world’s most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buffs, horror

Admirers, antiquities, and . . . ancient curses? A curse taints the ruins of Kilmere—or so the locals say—which makes it an unchancy inheritance for herbali

Much of the theater of antiquity is marked by erasures: missing origins, broken genres, fragments of plays, ruins of architecture, absented gods, remains of old

This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute