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). Hades, Greek god of the underworld, enthroned, with his bird-headed staff, on a red-figure Apulian vase made in the 4th century BC. For other uses, see Hades (disambiguation). ... Heaven is an afterlife concept found in many religions or spiritual philosophies. ... Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180) Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is a place or a state of pain and suffering. ...

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. John Kendrick Bangs John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 - January 21, 1922) was an American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. ... The Associated Shades are a group of famous dead people appearing in some of John Kendrick Bangs works. ...

History

Bangs was not the first to write Bangsian fantasy; he was merely the modern face put on an old idea. One of the world's earliest pieces of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh, contains a description of Hell and a voyage across the river of Death in search of eternal life. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and is among the earliest known literary works. ...

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The Bible does not describe Hell in great detail. However, with the publication in the 14th century of Dante's Divine Comedy, particularly the first Book (Inferno), Hell gained imagery still used in fiction today. Hell, as Dante described it, was a cone shape drilled into the Earth by the impact of Satan's fall from heaven (drawings of Dante's Hell resemble an open-pit mine). The cone was divided into nine concentric rings, with each lower ring offering more-terrible punishments. The worse a person had been in life, the lower on the cone that person would end up in death. Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, (c. ... Dante shown holding a copy of The Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, in Michelinos fresco. ... Gustave Dorés depiction of Satan from John Miltons Paradise Lost Satan, from the Hebrew word for accuser (Standard Hebrew: , Satan Tiberian Hebrew ; Koine Greek: , Satanás; Aramaic: , ; Arabic: , , Slavic Сатана), is a term with its origins in the Abrahamic faiths which is traditionally applied to an angel. ...

Dante took quite a few liberties with the Christian mythology of Hell. He placed people alive at the time of the book's publication in Hell, and he also meshed Greco-Roman myths into Christian Hell. Various Greek and Roman personages also turn up in the mix, such as Virgil, the Latin poet who serves as Dante's guide. For his part, Dante's works verge into the territory of fan fiction at times, using not just the dead but famous fictional personae as well. A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD. For other uses, see Virgil (disambiguation). ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. ...

Characteristics

In addition to being set in Hades, Heaven, or Hell, another characteristic of Bangsian fantasy is that it often has few, if any, fictitious characters in it. The people in it are much more likely to be either historical or mythical in nature. // The word mythology (Greek: μυθολογία, from μύθος mythos, a story or legend, and λόγος logos, an account or speech) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use supernatural events or characters to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. ...

Works of Bangsian Fantasy

• The Odyssey, by Homer: Book Eleven depicts Odysseus's visit with Tiresias in Hades
• The Aeneid, by Virgil: Book Six depicts Aeneas's visit with his father in Hades
• Dialogues of the Dead, by Lucian: Book set in Hades, featuring satiric dialogues between famous mythical and historical persons of Ancient Greece and Greek mythology.
• Risalatu'l Ghufran or Resalatu Alghufran رسالة الغفران (english: 'The epistle of redemption' or 'The letter of redemption', by al-Ma'arri a 10th century arab poet: A poem where the poet visits Heaven and Hell and meets previous famous Arab poets. This work is considered by some to be the inspiration of Dante's better known divine comedy.
• The Divine Comedy, by Dante: The speaker writes of his visits to Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven
• A House-Boat on the Styx (1895), by John Kendrick Bangs
• Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897), by John Kendrick Bangs
• The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899), by John Kendrick Bangs
• Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (1909), a short story by Mark Twain
• 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 John Kendrick Bangs
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946), by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
• Les jeux sont faits (The Chips Are Down) (1952), by Jean-Paul Sartre: Two persons destined for each other are sent back to life, from a bureaucratic afterlife, to consummate their love
• Huis-clos, better known as No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre: A gripping portrayal of Hell, where the only punishment is the people you are left with forever
• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (Purgatory and Heaven)
• "A Nice Place to Visit", an episode of The Twilight Zone, written by Charles Beaumont and produced in 1960
• Job: a Comedy of Justice, by Robert A. Heinlein
• How the Dead Live (1993), by Will Self
• Riverworld, by Philip José Farmer: A sequence of science-fiction novels based on the Bangsian-esque concept of an artificial world on which everyone who has ever lived is resurrected
• The Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna Lejonhjärta), by Astrid Lindgren
• Inferno (1976), by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: A science-fantasy inspired by Dante's Inferno
• The Living End (1979) by Stanley Elkin: Novel concerning a liquor store owner murdered in a holdup, then sent to Hell by a vain God for slighting Heaven.
• Heroes in Hell (12 volumes, 1986–1989), by C.J. Cherryh and Janet Morris: Historical personages, from Brutus to Andropov, fight continuous war in Hell; Marilyn Monroe is Satan's secretary.
• Beetlejuice (1988), by Tim Burton.
• Erik the Viking (1989), a comedy/adventure film by Terry Jones featuring Erik the Viking and his troupe of warriors who set out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, the warrior's afterlife.
• FaustEric (1990): Eric Thursley and Rincewind the wizard visit the Hell of Discworld.
• Defending Your Life (1991): Heaven is presented as a sort of resort city, where the newly dead must justify their living choices during a trial that decides the course of their soul.
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991): Both of the eponymous duo are killed, sneak into heaven, and play parlour games with persons of historical significance.
• After Life (1998): A Japanese film in which the recently departed are aided by "social workers" who help them select a memory that they wish to relive.
• What Dreams May Come (1998): A drama film based on the 1978 book, following a modern man's passage into heaven and then down into hell to save his wife.
• Grim Fandango (1998): A humorous computer game set in the Aztec afterlife.
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999), by Kurt Vonnegut: The story is actually set in Heaven, although Vonnegut implies that it is like Hades in the sense that you go to it no matter what.
• Monkeybone (2001): This Henry Selick film, starring Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, and Chris Kattan, takes place mostly in a "way station" for lost souls that is more like Hell than Heaven.
• Corpse Bride (2005): Many scenes in this movie take place in the Land of the Dead
• Jack, by David Hopkins: This Furry webcomic takes place mostly in the afterlife. Most story arcs are set in Hell, some are on Earth, with either living people, or newly dead souls who have not yet been taken to their reward. A few are set in Purgatory, and very few in Heaven (which is portrayed as whatever the involved soul wants it to be).
• Bleach: This ongoing manga series revolves around the world of the Shinigami (called Soul Society, but similar to the Bangsian version of Hades as well as the Buddhist concept of the afterlife) and its connections with the human world, the world of the Hollows (comparable to the "hungry ghost" realm in Buddhism), and (briefly) Hell.
• YuYu Hakusho (manga, anime) deals with a boy who has died, travelled throught the spirit world, and returned to his living body.
• Devil's Point, by Holly Lisle: In this series of urban-fantasy novels (Sympathy for the Devil; The Devil and Dan Cooley; and Hell on High) God, in answer to a prayer, allows Hell to release a number of damned souls back to Earth (specifically, to North Carolina), so that they may have a better chance of redemption; settings include Hell, Heaven, and Earth; these stories are distinctive in the genre, in that God is a major character instead of being distant or off-stage.
• Old Harry's Game, a BBC Radio comedy written by and starring Andy Hamilton as Satan
• Made in Heaven (1987). In this movie, two souls meet and fall in love in Heaven, and then are reincarnated on Earth, with the task of finding each other again.
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, starring the vocal talents of Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLouise.
• Incarnations of Immortality, a seven-book series by Piers Anthony has many scenes involving Heaven, Hell, and Limbo. Good people go to heaven, which is similar to the Christian concept. Bad people go to Hell which is intended to serve like Catholic purgatory in that while it is a place of torment, you only stay until you are finished suffering for your sins. People who have an even mix of good and evil and unborn children go to Limbo, which houses the bureaucrats of the afterlife. The souls of atheists simply fade away after their death and they do not go to an afterlife.
• les Thanatonautes, l'empire des anges and, to a lesser extent, Nous les dieux and Le souffle des dieux by french author Benard Werber in which the protagonist Michael Pinson discovers the land of the dead, becomes a guardian angel and eventually becomes a student at a god school.
• Shades of Grey by Robin Dempsey: A webcomic about the afterlife that reverses to an extent the notion of Heaven and Hell. Heaven is portrayed as a place of unhappiness and lies, whereas hell is shown as being somewhat like normal life.
• Irregular Webcomic! depicts the realm of the dead as an "infinite featureless plane" with "a single feature" [1] and a large but finite bureaucracy filled with various grim reapers. Each grim reaper is responsible for a different cause of death, from the somewhat usual (like "Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs" [2]) to the incredibly ridiculous (like "Death of Being Wrestled to Death by Steve [3]).

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References

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Groups And Societies

• Bangers Society - A group that focuses primarily on learning more about Bangsian Fantasy.