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The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text.
Book of the Dead or The Book of the Dead also may refer to:
Literature
edit- Book of the Dead (Art Institute of Chicago), an Egyptian Book of the Dead papyrus scroll
- Bardo Thodol, commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Bandlet of Righteousness, also known as the Ethiopian Book of the Dead
- "Nekyia", Book 11 of the Odyssey
- Book of the Dead (anthology), a 1989 zombie horror anthology series
- Book of the Dead (memoir), E. Hoffman Price's collection of memoirs
- Book of the Dead (Cornwell novel), a crime novel written in 2007 by Patricia Cornwell
- The Book of the Dead (novel), the seventh book of the Agent Pendergast series and the third book of the Diogenes trilogy written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- The Book of the Dead (Lee), the third novel in The Secret Books of Paradys series by Tanith Lee
- Necronomicon, H.P. Lovecraft's fictional book
- Book of the Dead (Angel novel), a 2004 novel based on the U.S. television series Angel
- The Book of the Dead (poem), by American poet Muriel Rukeyser, published as Part 1 of her second volume, US 1 (1938)
- The QI Book of the Dead, the fourth tie-in book with the British television series QI
- Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), a poem by William Gibson
- Doktor Bey's Book of the Dead, 1981 book by Derek Pell
- Left Ginza (part of the Ginza Rabba, the primary scripture of Mandaeism), also called the "Book of the Dead"
Other uses
edit- The Book of the Dead (film), a 2005 Japanese film
- Book of the Dead (album), an album by Bloodbound
- The Book of the Dead (album), a 1998 album by Ars Nova
See also
edit- Totenpass, the "passport of the dead" in some ancient Greco-Roman religions