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• An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell (second edition, with supplement; London: T. Astley, 1727), by Tobias Swinden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Recherches sur la Nature du Feu de l'Enfer, et du Lieu Où Il Est Situé (in French; Amsterdam: Chez les Wetsteins et Smith, 1728), by Tobias Swinden, trans. by Jean François Bion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur la Nature du Feu de l'Enfer, et du Lieu Où Il Est Situé (in French; 1757), by Tobias Swinden, trans. by Jean François Bion (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Hell-Fire: A Twisted Truth Untangled (c1984), by Joe Crews (HTML at amazingfacts.org)
• Eloge de l'Enfer: Ouvrage Critique, Historique, et Moral (2 volumes in French, published anonymously but attributed to Bernard; La Haye: P. Gosse Jr., 1759), by Jean-Frédéric Bernard
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Eloge de l'Enfer: Ouvrage Critique, Historique, et Moral (second edition, in French, published anonymously but attributed to Bernard; London: Société Typographique, 1777), by Jean-Frédéric Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Message From Hell, by Joseph G. Barker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment (reprinted from the second London edition; New Haven: C. C. Chatfield and Co., 1871), by Henry Constable (multiple formats at Google)
• The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment (reprinted from the second London edition; New Haven: C. C. Chatfield and Co., 1872), by Henry Constable (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Examination of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment: Its Divine Origin Refuted, in a Series of Lectures (Cincinnati: G. W. Quinby, 1854), by I. D. Williamson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An Examination of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment: Its Divine Origin Refuted, in a Series of Lectures (Cincinnati: G. W. Quinby, 1860), by I. D. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Question of Hell: An Essay in New Orthodoxy (New Haven: Wilson and Co.; New York: American News Co., 1873), by E. C. Towne (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The New Testament Idea of Hell (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1878), by Stephen Mason Merrill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Inquiry into the Scriptural Import of the Words Sheol, Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna, Translated Hell in the Common English Version (Boston: A. Tompkins, 1854), by Walter Balfour, ed. by Otis A. Skinner (multiple formats at Google)

• Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen, by Emanuel Swedenborg, trans. by John C. Ager (HTML at newearth.org)
• What is of Faith, as to Everlasting Punishment? In Reply to Dr. Farrar's Challenge in His "Eternal Hope" (1880), by E. B. Pusey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Distance Travelled (Orlando: Necro Publications, 2006), by Brett Alexander Savory (PDF at chizine.com)
• Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in Hell (2007), by Fred Stopsky (page images at Google)
• Damned: The Intimate Story of a Girl (this edition published anonymously; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1923), by Ethel Smith Dorrance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satan's Realm (Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Co., 1899), by Edgar C. Blum (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Garuda Purana (1911), ed. by Ernest Wood and S. V. Subrahmanyam (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• St. Patrick's Purgatory: An Essay on the Legends of Purgatory, Hell, and Paradise, Current During the Middle Ages (London: John Russell Smith, 1844), by Thomas Wright (multiple formats at Google)

• Hell Up to Date: The Reckless Journal of R. Palasco Drant, Special Correspondent, Through the Infernal Regions, As Recorded by Himself (Chicago: Schulte Pub. Co., c1893), by Art Young (PDF at marxists.org)
• Through Hell With Hiprah Hunt (New York: Zimmerman's, 1901), by Art Young (PDF with included commentary at marxists.org)

• The Divine Comedy (online edition, wih Italian and English texts, and commentary), by Dante Alighieri, ed. by Teodolinda Barolini, trans. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Allen Mandelbaum (HTML at Columbia)
• The Divine Comedy (3 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1892-1894), by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Arthur John Butler
  • Hell: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Purgatory: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Paradise: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Gutenberg text)
• The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Charles Eliot Norton
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
• The Divine Comedy: The Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, by Dante Alighieri and Gustave Doré, trans. by Henry Francis Cary (illustrated HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• The Dream of Hell (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1906), by George Wilson Duley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Inferno, From the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, by Dante Alighieri, trans. by S. Fowler Wright (HTML at sfw.org.uk)
• The Inferno of Dante Translated (London: J. Nichols, 1782), by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Charles Rogers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Journey to Hell, or, A Visit Paid to the Devil: A Poem (2 parts in 1; London: Printed and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1700), by Edward Ward (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• La Commedia, Col Commento di Cristoforo Landino (in Italian (with no title page); Venice: M. Codecà, 1493), by Dante Alighieri, contrib. by Cristoforo Landino
  • page images in Spain
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Vision: or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri, by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Henry Francis Cary (Gutenberg text)

• A Debate on the State of the Dead (Louisville: Printed by Morton and Griswold, 1854), by Thomas P. Connelly and Nathaniel Field
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Indiana
• The Intermediate State and Prayers for the Dead, Examined in the Light of Scripture, and of Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1900), by Charles H. H. Wright (multiple formats at Google)
• The Intermediate World (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1878), by L. T. Townsend (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychopannychia (translated 1851), by Jean Calvin, trans. by Henry Beveridge (HTML at monergism.com)
• The Soul in the Unseen World: An Inquiry into the Doctrine of the Intermediate State (1902), by R. E. Hutton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Spirits of Just Men Made Perfect: A Study of the Intermediate State (Oberlin, OH: Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 1916), by John Elliott Wishart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• State of the Dead (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1871), by Anson West (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The State of the Departed (New York: Thomas N. Stanford, 1857), by John Henry Hobart (multiple formats at Google)
• Testimonies in Proof of the Separate Existence of the Soul in a State of Self-Consciousness Between Death and the Resurrection (1829), by Thomas Huntingford (multiple formats at Google)
• Where Are the Dead? A Guide to Scriptural Truth and Teaching Concerning the Intermediate State (c1920), by E. M. Milligan (PDF at Google)
• The State of the Dead and the Destiny of the Wicked (Battle Creek, MI: Steam Press of the Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association, 1873), by Uriah Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of the Doctrine of the Soul Among All Races and Peoples, Ancient and Modern, Including Theologians, Philosophers, Scientists, and Untutored Aboriginees (second edition, 1882), by Dudley Marvin Canright (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

• The World to Come: or, Discourses on the Joys or Sorroes of Departed Souls at Death (Bungay: Brightly and Childs, 1813), by Isaac Watts (multiple formats at Google)

• The World to Come: or, Discourses on the Joys or Sorroes of Departed Souls at Death (Bungay: Brightly and Childs, 1813), by Isaac Watts (multiple formats at Google)
• The Salvation of All Men Strictly Examined (second edition; Boston: C. Ewer and T. Bedlingon, 1824), by Jonathan Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Treatise Concerning the Resurrection (1662), by George Bishop (HTML and page images at Earlham)
• On the Resurrection of the Flesh, by Tertullian, trans. by Peter Holmes (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

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