A House-Boat on the Styx
Subtitle: Being Some Account of the Diverse Doings of the Associated Shades
By: By John Kendrick Bangs.
Publisher: Harper & brothers
Published: 1896
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Description: The souls of the dead must cross the Styx, to pass into a Hades-like afterworld. In the first of the twelve stories compiled in A House-Boat on the Styx, the man who ferries the souls across sees a houseboat floating downriver and fears for his livelihood. He is appointed janitor on the boat, where the remaining stories take place between characters from history and mythology.