Books like Devil tales by Steve Banes

A satirical dictionary compiling witty and biting definitions of English words, first published in a newspaper in 1881 and later revised into book form.

Preacher's dark journey as Jesse Custer seeks God, with supernatural elements and humor mixed into the religious quest story in Texas.

Buffy Season Eight: The Slayers Return to Normalcy?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's slayer team goes to war with the supernatural in Germany and Italy, revealing dark truths about the village and the Slayer's own fears.

Buffy's finale features Spike as the gang faces their most challenging battle ever!

'Lost Boys' is a graphic novel by Hans Rodionoff, featuring vampires in a horror/fantasy comic format. It blends striking artwork with dark, supernatural storytelling, appealing to fans of vampire fiction and graphic novels.

A demon named Lucifer escapes Hell and Dean's efforts to keep his promise to Sam of living a normal life.

Evil - disturbing, inexplicable, deeply rooted - persists. Inching toward the millennium, we speak of the Devil once again: in tabloid accounts of cults, in popular novels, and even in scholarly theological works. We are back where we began 2,000 years ago: going to the Devil. Now, in this informed, lucid, and very readable biography, Peter Stanford introduces us to this figure of fascination. Tracing the idea back to the pre-Christian era with its many devils, he pauses to explore Judaism's approach, then moves on to concentrate on Christianity's contribution: the creation of the monster we know today. Stanford casts his net widely to include literature and the arts, folklore and psychology, history and theology, and he distills a wealth of complex information - from early Church teachings to medieval iconography, from witchcraft and satanism to satanic cults and modern-day exorcisms. The result is a lively, engaging account of an age-old enemy.

"The Devil has fascinated Christians since the time of the New Testament, and inspired many haunting works of art. This Very Short Introduction looks at the Devil in the history of ideas and in the lives of real people. Darren Oldridge shows us that the Devil is an important figure in western history--a richly complex and contradictory one. Oldridge focuses on three main themes: the idea of the Devil being integral to western thought from the early Middle Ages to the beginnings of modernity; the belief that the Devil represents the mirror image of goodness; and the multiplicity and instability of ideas about the Devil. Oldridge concludes by exploring "demonological" ways of thinking in our own time, including allegations of "satanic ritual abuse.""--