Download or read book A House-Boat on the Styx written by John Kendrick Bangs and published by Sheba Blake Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The souls of the dead must cross the Styx, to pass into a Hades-like afterworld. In the first of the twelve stories compiled in A House-Boat on the Styx, the man who ferries the souls across sees a houseboat floating downriver and fears for his livelihood. He is appointed janitor on the boat, where the remaining stories take place between characters from history and mythology.