You’ve got to look sharp to keep up with the on- going influence of C.S. Lewis in the radically developing world political and religious scene. Pressing questions keep arising in the areas of the natural and the super natural. People are saying, “Well, maybe God is real after all. But ghosts? fairies? angels? devils? Come on!” Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is perhaps the best short treatise in the English language on the possible reality, and the possible activities, of devils. It records the correspondence of Screwtape, a senior devil, with his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter who has been assigned to the subversion of the soul of an Englishman during World War II. Sample: “My dear Wormwood, I am very pleased by what you tell me about this man’s relations with his mother….Keep in close touch with our colleague Glubose who is in charge of his mother, and build up between you in that house a good settled habit of mutual annoyance,  daily  pinpricks….”

A new perspective on the eternal war for the human soul. One of Lewis’s best-loved works.

C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters