Leila Wendell is a world-famous researcher of personifications of Death and all phenomena associated with It. Currently, her name has become synonymous with the word “necromancy”, since it was she who invented this genre more than a quarter of a century ago. The author of ten books and numerous articles on the subject of the personification of Death, she is also a fine artist, poet, and owner of the Westgate Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana – the first and only gallery containing examples of art and literature devoted exclusively to necromancy and the Angel of Death. Leila was born in New York, she gained her fame thanks to the unique publication “Our name is melancholy. The Complete Books of Azrael,” as well as more than twenty-five years of documented research within the Azrael Project. She currently resides in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a house known as the “Death House”. Here is a unique collection of anthropomorphic personifications of death from ancient, historical to modern phenomena, including traditional and non-traditional encounters with death, told in the words of those who have experienced this experience.