diabolism
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In addition to lending primacy to the Hanlons’ perspectives, “Welcome to Derry” also takes viewers inside the Indigenous community pushed to the town’s outskirts to explore their relationship to the diabolism known as It.
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025
Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2020
Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images Pendle: a place synonymous with witches and Britain's most notorious diabolism trials.
From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2012
The story turns on the kind of inbred diabolism on which Shirley Jackson based The Lottery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Literary engagements stood in the way—for the social heretics gather on a Friday—but come what might, I would hear them discuss diabolism.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice
