Bangsian fantasy

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Bangsian fantasy is the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. Frequently used are Hades (benign; no torture or pleasure), Heaven (a good place, although religious sects differ on what a newly arrived soul gets when he/she dies) and Hell (a bad place, but again, exactly what souls face varies from religion to religion).

Bangsian fantasy is named for John Kendrick Bangs,^[1] whose Associated Shades series of novels, from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, deals with the afterlives of various famous dead people.

Works of Bangsian fantasy

By Bangs

• A House-Boat on the Styx (1895)
• Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897)
• The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899)
• Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday Edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its special interviewer the late Mr. Ananias formerly of Jerusalem, and now first transcribed from the columns of that journal by J. K. Bangs (1901)

By others

• Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (1909), a short story by Mark Twain^{[citation needed]}
• Heaven/Hell/Earth/Wasteland/War (2007), Podiobook novellas by Mur Lafferty ^[2]
• Lucifer and Lacious (2007), novella by Sean Vincent Lehosit^[3]

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