Fire from Heaven: A Study of Spontaneous Combustion in Human Beings |
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User Review - Michael.Rimmer - LibraryThingI remember some rather gruesome photographs in this book of charred and semi-incinerated body parts, which I ghoulishly used to enjoy showing to my school friends. I recall sneaking it out of my ... Read full review
Contents
She Died by the Visitation of God | 12 |
The Nature of Preternatural Fire | 30 |
The Kilner Effect and the Kirlian Effect | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Fire from Heaven: A Study of Spontaneous Combustion in Human Beings |
| Author | Michael Harrison |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Methuen, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0330251465, 9780330251464 |
| Length | 295 pages |
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