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The Devil's Details: The Evolution of the Devil through Art and Literature

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Paradise Lost
Mephistopheles
Faust
Satan
Dante's Inferno
Doctor Faustus
John Milton
Christianity
Goethe's Faust
Hell
Gretchen
Goethe
Gounod's Opera
The Testament Of Solomon
Opera
Circle 8: Malebolge
Beelzebub
Asmodeus
Helen Of Troy
Dante Alighieri

What started as an exploration of the devil in their show, The Exorcist Minute, has grown into something much greater. Find all the original episodes of the show and more right here in The Devil's Details with Lester Ryan Clark and Kynan Dias.

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Satan is back in the woods — same spot as the first meeting — and the boys are thrilled, because life without him is genuinely dull. He offers to show them the history of the progress of the human race. They say yes. They should have said no.What fol... more

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Chapter seven of The Chronicle of Young Satan is the darkest chapter of the season, and there's no way to soften it. Nikolaus is going to drown in twelve days — Satan has already told the boys so — and the chapter is an unbearable countdown to a deat... more

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Chapter six of The Chronicle of Young Satan takes a hard turn from sibling squabbles into something genuinely devastating. Theodore tries to talk his sister Lily out of her infatuation with Philip Traum, fails completely, and that night Satan wakes h... more

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Five weeks in Eseldorf and everybody loves Satan — which is turning out to be almost as much of a problem as if they hated him. Philip Traum has been charming the whole village, pulling a famously fat man out of a river without getting his clothes we... more

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Chapter four of The Chronicle of Young Satan is where Eseldorf stops being a quirky medieval village and starts being a place where people get burned. The witch panic has expanded beyond old women — it's anyone now, children as young as eight or nine... more

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Chapter three of The Chronicle of Young Satan is where Twain's argument starts to land. Father Peter is in jail — Father Adolf has remembered losing exactly the right number of ducats at exactly the right time — and the whole town has rediscovered ho... more

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The ChapterChapter two of The Chronicle of Young Satan is where we finally meet our narrator and his two friends — Theodore Fisher, Nikolaus Bauman, and Seppi Vohmeier, three boys with the run of a medieval Austrian castle town who spend their days s... more

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The Chronicle of Young Satan opens in Eseldorf — or Assville, if you speak German — a small Austrian village in 1702 where it is still the Middle Ages and Twain makes clear it intends to stay that way. Chapter one has no devil in it yet. It has somet... more

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This show explores history, folklore, and pop culture through the lens of the devil figure, with a focus on how devilish archetypes appear across animation, literature, film, and music. Episodes sample a wide range of works—from classic folklore and storytelling like The Devil and Daniel Webster and The Devil and Daniel Webster to animation and TV—using humor and sharp analysis to uncover how themes of temptation, morality, and cultural myth-making evolve over time. The hosts bring personal anecdotes and a thoughtful, often skeptical perspective on how these depictions reflect society, art, and entertainment, making complex cultural conversations accessible and entertaining. A standout trait is the sustained curiosity about how devil figure... more

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