Dialogues of the Dead
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Dialogues of the Dead (Nekrikoi dialogoi) is a collection of thirty vignettes by Lucian, set in Hades.
It is also the title of a séance book by George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton who wrote Dialogues of the Dead in 1760 with Elizabeth Montagu, leader of the bluestockings.
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