Which C.S. Lewis novel features the demonic bureaucrat Screwtape writing letters to Wormwood?

The Screwtape Letters is the C.S. Lewis novel featuring the senior demon Screwtape writing advice to his junior nephew, Wormwood. Lewis presents the book as a series of letters from a bureaucratic demon’s perspective.

The work first appeared in book form in 1942, after parts had been published in the Anglican newspaper The Guardian. Screwtape’s letters discuss temptation, distraction, pride, pleasure, fear, and the habits that can shape a person’s spiritual life. The satirical viewpoint lets Lewis criticize demonic methods while indirectly examining human behavior.

Although the book uses demons as narrators, it is not a manual of occult practice. It is a work of Christian satire and apologetic fiction. The title is sometimes confused with The Great Divorce, another Lewis work involving a fantastical journey, but that book uses a different narrative structure and characters.