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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/257541 Title: House-Boat on the Styx Author: John Kendrick Bangs Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs 54 mins Language: English Release date: 2016-01-01 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Publisher's Summary: The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx. This does not appear to be the conventional Hell described by Dante in The Inferno, but rather the Hades described in Greek myth (both of which had Styxes): a universal collecting pot for dead souls, regardless of their deeds in life. The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx (in The Inferno, he was the ferryman of the river Acheron) being startled-and annoyed-by the arrival of a house boat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out tha