Hell will take you through three thousand years of eternal torment - from the Old Testament Sheol and Gehenna to the newest versions of hell on Earth. You will cross the Acheron River in the same boat with the hero Aeneas and set foot on the shores of Hades; meet the devil in the form of a giant thousand-armed monster, as imagined by a monk who lived in the 12th century; you will go through nine circles of Dante’s underworld, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers and hypocrites endure eternal torment for their sins; You will witness the debate that agitated Victorian England, when scientific evidence made people doubt the idea of \u200b\u200bpunishment after death. A unique anthology of the most important texts about Hell, compiled by the American medievalist and historian of religion, professor at Fordham University Scott Bruce, shows us how the idea of posthumous retribution for earthly sins influenced – and continues to influence the minds of people.