If This Party Gets Any Livelier, a Funeral Might Break Out!: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 7 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
The darkest chapter of the season: a death the boys can’t prevent, a mother who curses God, and Satan rewriting a stranger into hell to help her. Twain might be darker than Poe.
A Whole New World: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 6 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Twain’s Young Satan offers Theodore a choice: forty-six years of paralyzed agony, or drowning in twelve days. Theodore agrees the drowning is better. So do you. That’s the problem.
Everybody Loves Satan!: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 5 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Satan doesn’t try to ruin anyone’s life—he just exists near them. A suitor’s courtship evaporates, a knife gets pulled, and chess games get replayed from memory. Twain’s devil, five weeks in.
It’s A Devil of a Time in Eseldorf: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 4 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Satan slides into Father Adolf like a film, fills a bottle from nothing, and juggles a hundred brass balls—humiliating the priest so badly Paine’s fraud edition cut the scene entirely.
Cats and Dogs! Living Together! Catholic Mass Hysteria!: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 3 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
A man beats a dog, falls off a cliff, and the dog spends two days trying to save him. Young Satan heals the eye and makes his case against the moral sense. Twain is not playing.
The Mysterious Mix-Up: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 1 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
We start Twain’s Chronicle of Young Satan — and Chapter 1 doesn’t even need its devil yet. A village that punishes goodness and rewards fear is already doing the work.
MISTER Satan is My Uncle!: The Chronicle of Young Satan, Chapter 2 • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Twain’s Satan creates a village, kills everyone in it, wipes the clay on his handkerchief, and lists humanity’s faults with mild curiosity. His deepest contempt: the moral sense. File that away.
Nightmare Fuel: The Mysterious Stranger Claymation Clip from The Adventures of Mark Twain • The Devil According to Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s dark late period used Satan to say what he couldn’t otherwise. We start with a rated-G claymation — and the news that the book we assigned doesn’t quite exist
The End Of The End Times • Revelation, Chapter 22
Revelation ends not with a sword or smiting — but a river, a tree, and grace. John would like a word with everyone using this book to justify the very thing it condemns.
New Earth, Who Dis? • Revelation, Chapter 21
We read Revelation 21 and discover the New Jerusalem isn’t waiting for us in the clouds — it’s a cube the size of a continent coming down here, and the gates are never shut.