📚 Apparent Death

Books with apparent death on their catalogue record, first published between 1680 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject apparent death in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 172 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Life After Life	Raymond A. Moody	1975	65
	Closer to the light	Melvin Morse	1990	10
	Otherworld journeys	Carol Zaleski	1983	9
	The light beyond	Raymond A. Moody	1988	7
	Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées	Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila	1818	6
	Beyond and back	Ralph Wilkerson	1977	6
	Recollections of death	Michael B. Sabom	1981	6
	A physical dissertation on drowning	Rowland Jackson	1746	4
	Heading Toward Omega	Kenneth Ring	1984	4
	Return from tomorrow	George G. Ritchie	2007	4
	The institution of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts	Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.	1786	3
	An enquiry into the causes of suspended animation from drowning	David Hosack	1792	3
	A practical essay on the art of recovering suspended animation	Christian August Struve	1803	3
	Premature burial and how it may be prevented	William Tebb	1896	3
	Life at death	Kenneth Ring	1980	3
	There Is No Death	Sarah Lanelle Menet	2002	3
	Cheating death	Sanjay Gupta	2009	3
	Our home doctor	Moore Russell Fletcher	1883	2
	Agonie	Wolfgang Laves	1965	2
	Return from tomorrow	George G. Ritchie	1978	2
	Adventures in immortality	George Gallup, Jr.	1982	2
	Return from death	Margot Grey	1985	2
	At the Hour of Death	Karlis Osis	1986	2
	The Lazarus syndrome	Rodney Davies	1998	2
	Scheintod	Gerlind Rüve	2008	2
	Raised from the Dead	Reinhard Bonnke	2014	2
	News from Basing-Stoak of one Mrs. Blunden, a maltsters vvife, who was buried alive	Unknown author	1680	1
	A Full and true relation of a maid living in Newgate Street in London	Unknown author	1680	1
	Elegantissimum ex physicis thema de hominibus apparenter mortuis	Theodor Kirchmaier	1681	1
	The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure	Jacques-Bénigne Winslow	1748	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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