Books like The Screwtape Letters
A senior devil writes thirty-one letters of advice to his junior-devil nephew on how to damn a young English Christian, across the first years of the London blitz.
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The Revolt of the Angels
Arcade, the guardian angel of a dull young Parisian, reads his way through the family's great theological library, loses his faith in God and resolves to start a new rebellion in heaven.
Under the Glacier
A young emissary from the bishop is sent to a remote parish beneath Snæfellsjökull, where the pastor no longer holds services and strange guests gather for something no one will explain.
The Master and Margarita
The Devil visits 1930s Moscow with a giant cat, a naked witch, and a vaudeville show, exposing the lies of Soviet society while a novelist rewrites the story of Pontius Pilate.
Wise Blood
A young man in the rural American South is consumed by a grotesque religious vision, and the novel's dark comedy conceals a genuine theological horror.
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Stories of the Jewish villages of old Poland, among them Gimpel the baker, the butt of every joke in town, who chooses to believe whatever he is told.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
I Am a Cat
A nameless cat belonging to a Tokyo schoolteacher observes his owner and his owner's Meiji-era circle of scholars, businessmen and gossips with the cool contempt of his species.
The Shack
Years after his youngest daughter was abducted on a family camping trip, with evidence that she was murdered in an abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness, Mack Phillips finds a note in his mailbox, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Lolly Willowes
After twenty years as the dutiful maiden aunt in her brother's London household, Laura Willowes moves alone to a village in the Chilterns, where she discovers a vocation as a witch.
Paradise Reclaimed
Steinar, a poor, upright Icelandic farmer, gives his daughter's beloved pony to the King of Denmark and later leaves his family to follow a Mormon missionary to Utah.
Interview with the Vampire
In a San Francisco room, a vampire tells a young reporter his story, from his making on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation to his years with Lestat and the child vampire Claudia.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
A dead man narrates his own life from the grave, skewering nineteenth-century Brazilian society with a wit that anticipates magical realism by a century.