Title: A House-Boat on the Styx
Subtitle: Being Some Account of the Diverse Doings of the Associated Shades
First published: 1895
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Houseboats, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies, styx, American literature, Fiction, general, Fiction, satire, Wit and humor
LC classification: PS1064 B3 H65 1897