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

Challenging this diabolism is Jakov Liebermann, a death-camp survivor who has devoted his postwar life to detecting and exposing unpunished Nazi war criminals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Music slides over into diabolism; the Pobloff symphony rends the firmament of Heaven; the ghost of Chopin drives Mychowski to drink; a single drum-beat finishes the estimable consort of the composer of the Tympani symphony.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)