Book of the Dead (disambiguation)

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The Book of the Dead is the common name for several ancient Egyptian funerary texts. It may also refer to:

Literature

• Bardo Thodol, traditionally but inaccurately called the "Tibetan 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 by Derek Pell

Cinema

• The Book of the Dead (film), a 2005 Japanese film

Music

• Book of the Dead (Bloodbound album)
• The Book of the Dead (Ars Nova album), 1998

See also

• Totenpass, the "passport of the dead" in some ancient Greco-Roman religions