Death Has a Name: The Personification of Death in British Fantastic Fiction by Barbora Vinczeová

“… The paper addresses the issue of the personification of death in British fantastic fiction based on an analysis of two novels, Pratchett’s Mort and Lee’s Death’s Master. …”
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Death that Came to Holiday, in Stories of E.A. Poe, I. Bunin and V. Nabokov by V. Yu. Lebedeva

Subjects: “…anthropomorphic personification of death…”
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The Case of the Angels: The Relevance of the Research by Classical Scholar John Cuthbert Lawson (1874-1919) on Modern Greek Culture by Michał Bzinkowski

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“Jan de Dood en sy bende”: Vergestaltings van die dood in die romans van Lettie Viljoen/Ingrid Winterbach by Thys Human

“…In this article the central role of personifications of death in her novels is investigated. There are mainly two important ways in which death is embodied in her novels since 1993, i.e. as an ubiquitous, but simultaneously absent male figure, such as Jama in Karolina Ferreira (translated as The Elusive Moth, 1993, 2005), Jan de Dood in Buller se plan (Buller’s plan, 1999) and Theo Verwey in Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat (The book of coincidence and refuge, 2006) and the femme fatale and angel of death, respectively represented by a seductive woman with red hair and pale skin and either an emaciated woman in black, or a black woman as in Landskap met vroue en slang (Landscape with women and snake, 1996) Buller se plan and Niggie (translated as To Hell with Cronjé, 2002, 2007). …”
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Народная демонология Полесья в контексте восточнославянских традиционных верований by Ľudmila N. Vinogradova

“…The second part of the work considers two groups of mythological characters: spirits not assigned to a specific locus (the devil, spirits of diseases, personification of death, characters for intimidation of children) and different categories of living people endowed with supernatural knowledge (witches, sorcerers, healers, werewolves). …”
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A post-Byzantine creation: The archangel Michael triumphant and psychopomp by Leontakianakou Irini

“…Three possible answers are considered: 1) the figure can be identified with Satan the fallen angel who, like Michael, has an immaterial nature and is commonly considered as his enemy par excellence; 2) he can also be an anonymous sinner, whose soul is depicted in Michael's hand; 3) finally, one could identify him with Hades, the god of the Underworld and personification of death, because he is depicted as an old man, semi-nude with a pronounced musculature, as well as because of the assimilation of Michael to God. …”
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O Cadáver, um emblema da morte em “Ápeiron”, de Caio Fernando Abreu by André Luiz Gomes de Jesus

“…In this text, the reflection about death as well as the dissociation process connected to it is triggered by the representation of the mental states of a corpse, a kind of allegorical emblem of the human finitude, since this can be seen as the personification of death. Moreover, the emblematic nature of the dead body also refers to the emptiness of the human life. …”
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