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A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell's Latest Novelties and Heaven's Unanswerable Answer
C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence
...2) Horns
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Language
English
Description
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples. At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thousand years after making a deal with the Devil to gain immortality, Doctor Parnassus must save his daughter from the hands of the Devil with the help of his friends in his travelling magic show.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A medieval devil speaks directly to the reader, his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next, in a memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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When Lionel Savage, a popular poet in Victorian London, learns from his butler that they're broke, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. Distraught and contemplating suicide, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil -- the polite "Gentleman" of the title -- who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home, where he employs Dante...
Author
Publisher
Self Made Hero
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations, some color ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Disappearances, destruction and death spread throughout Moscow like wildfire, and Margarita has discovered that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try a little black magic of her own to save the man she loves.
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Language
English
Description
The professor and the poet who've come to Patriarch's Ponds for a stroll on a hot and stagnant Moscow afternoon are dismayed to encounter a quite extraordinary stranger, surely a deranged foreigner. As this quixotic character recalls a centuries-old story of destiny, his infamy becomes a matter of gruesome revelation for the doomed professor and his poor companion. And what will become of the Master's suppressed masterpiece? Something his lover, Margarita,...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (566 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer has resigned his throne and retired to the City of Angels, where he is indulging in wine, women, and song. When a beautiful pop star is brutally murdered before his eyes, he feels something awaken deep within him, for the first time in ten billion years. Is he actually capable of feelings for a human being? The very thought disturbs him, as well as his best friend and confidante, Mazikeen, a fierce demon...
12) Rosemary's baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 630
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a New York couple is expecting their first child, the young mother-to-be begins to suspect that her friendly elderly neighbors and her husband are hatching a sinister plot against her and her baby.
13) The cold eye
Author
Series
Devil's West volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
334 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious that is threatening not just her life, but the whole Territory. Isobel is the left hand of the old man of the Territory, the Boss -- better known as the Devil. Along with her mentor, Gabriel, she is traveling circuit through Flood to represent the power...
Author
Series
Devil's West volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
382 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Isobel, upon her sixteenth birthday, makes the choice to work for the Boss called the Devil by some, in his territory west of the Mississippi. But this is not the devil you know. This is a being who deals fairly with immense -- but not unlimited -- power, who offers opportunities to people who want to make a deal, and they always get what they deserve. But his land is a wild west that needs a human touch, and that's where Izzy comes in. Inadvertently...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Physical Desc
xii, 205 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A stranger arrives in a remote mountain village carrying a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. The stranger puts a proposition to Chantal Prym, his first acquaintance in the village, and with it gives her the power to prove or disprove a supposition that has tormented him for years--given the right set of circumstances every human being on this earth would...
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels.
17) The descent
Author
Series
Hadals volume 1
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
ix, 449 p. : map (on end pages) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The subterranean kingdom of humanity's deepest fears erupts into the world with terrible reality. The demonic hordes exist. So, too, does their satanic overlord, whose ultimate purpose remains shrouded in the darkness over which he reigns.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (787 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Season Two, LAPD Detective Chloe Decker and Lucifer Morningstar are back solving murders on L.A.'s white-hot streets, with their relationship growing deeper, closer, and more awkward for them both. To add fuel to the fire, Lucifer's mum, Charlotte, escapes Hell, bringing along a ton of emotional baggage: She wants back what was stolen from her. Now Lucifer and his angel brother, Amenadiel, with whom Lucifer has serious sibling issues, must work...
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Pub. Date
2010
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger . . ." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922," the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery...
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Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen. Everything...
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