Satanism & demonology – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:41:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Satanism & demonology – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The devil’s best trick https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-devils-best-trick/ Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-devils-best-trick/ How we explain the evils of the world – and the darkest parts of ourselves – has preoccupied humans throughout history. In The Devil’s Best Trick, Randall Sullivan investigates historical, religious and cultural conceptions of evil, from Biblical times to European witch hunts to the devil-worshipping ‘Black Mass’ ceremony. He travels to Mexico to participate in the ‘Hour of the Witches’ – an annual ceremony in which hundreds of people congregate in the jungle south of Vera Cruz to negotiate terms with El Diablo. He takes us through the most famous exorcism in American history. And he delivers original reporting on the shocking story of a small town in Texas that, in 1988, unravelled into paranoia and panic after a seventeen-year-old boy was found hanging from a tree and rumours about Satanic worship and cults flourished. Nimble and expertly researched, The Devil’s Best Trick brilliantly melds cultural and historical commentary with a suspenseful true-crime narrative. Randall Sullivan, whose reportage and narrative skill has been called ‘extraordinary’ and ‘enthralling’ by Rolling Stone, takes on a bold task in this book that is both biography of the Devil and a look at how evil manifests in the world.

]]> Screwtape Letters https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/screwtape-letters/ Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/screwtape-letters/ A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil.

]]> A milestone in the history of popular theology, ‘The Screwtape Letters’ is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil.

This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. Although the young man initially looks to be a willing victim, he changes his ways and is ‘lost’ to the young devil.

Dedicated to Lewis’s friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien, ‘The Screwtape Letters’ is a timeless classic on spiritual conflict and the invisible realities which are part of our religious experience.

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