Contents -- Editorial 7 -- 1. Michael Alexander (University of St Andrews) - The landscape of the afterlife in medieval and post-medieval imagination 9 -- 2. Rafal Boryslawski (University of Silesia, Katowice) - Between ofergyhg and wræclastas: Pride and exile in the speculative afterlife of Christ and Satan 21 -- 3. Anna Czarnowus (University of Silesia, Katowice) - Muhammad in Hell, or Dante and William Langland on the prophet's afterlife 31 -- 4. Sabine Heinz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) - Afterlife and Celtic concepts of the Otherworld 43 -- 5. Dwight Holbrook (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) - The 'after' in medieval afterlife: A vertical or horizont alarrow of time? 59 -- 6. Lukasz Hudomit (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) - Unreal wonderlands - The quest for Paradise in late medieval and Victorian imagination 67 -- 7. Barbara Kowalik (University of Warsaw) - Inklings of afterlife: Images of Hell in C.S. Lewis' The great divorce and Charles Williams' Et in sempiternum pereant 77 -- 8. Joanna Ludwikowska-Leniec (Adam Mickiewicz University,Poznan)Access denied: The female "wild zone" in visions of Purgatory by Christina Mirabilis 93 -- 9. Jacek Olesiejko (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) - The Anglo-Saxon idea of locus amoenus: The Paradise in the Old English Judgement day II and The Phoenix 101 -- 10. Liliana Sikorska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) - Reading and writing a medievalist text: Adam Thorpe's Hodd. Anadvertisement in five acts 109 -- 11. Andrzej Wicher (Lód Academy of the Humanities and Economics) - Some gender aspects of the motif of penance in selected Middle English romances 121.