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
Lawrence once urged his readers to "look through the surfaces of American art, and see the inner diabolism."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Nor has this diabolism anything grand or impressive about it—anything that "intends greatly" and glows, as has been said, with a black splendour, in Marlowesque or Websterian fashion.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George