Feeding Our Fascination With Hell

CS Lewis’s hell is less “abandon all hope” and more “abandon all joy.”
Feeding Our Fascination With Hell
"Dante and Virgil in the Second Circle in Hell," 1823, by Joseph Anton Koch after Asmus Jacob Carstens. Pen, ink, and watercolor on paper. Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. Public Domain
Nicole James
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Hell: The ultimate destination for those who’ve grown weary of package holidays to Kuta and fancy a change of scenery—preferably one with more torment and fewer hen’s parties.

It seems the people of Singapore have cottoned on to this untapped market, transforming their Hell’s Museum (the main attraction at the Haw Par Villa park) into a veritable Disneyland of damnation.

Nicole James
Nicole James
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Nicole James is a freelance journalist for The Epoch Times based in Australia. She is an award-winning short story writer, journalist, columnist, and editor. Her work has appeared in newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Telegraph. She holds a BA Communications majoring in journalism and two post graduate degrees, one in creative writing.
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