Which C.S. Lewis work features the senior demon Screwtape giving advice to Wormwood?
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The Screwtape Letters
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The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters features the senior demon Screwtape advising Wormwood.
The book is structured as a series of letters from Screwtape, an experienced tempter, to Wormwood, his inexperienced nephew. Their correspondence discusses how to distract a human subject from faith, moral attention, and what the demons call the Enemy.
Lewis published the work in 1942. Its epistolary form lets him present temptation through reversed moral language: readers must infer the Christian ideas from advice intended to undermine them. The satire targets habits such as vanity, resentment, distraction, and self-deception.
The work is fiction, not a collection of claims that Lewis literally received demonic correspondence. The Great Divorce is another imaginative theological book, but it uses a bus journey and dialogues rather than letters from Screwtape to Wormwood.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026