"Ten years ago nobody would laugh at a movie about eating people," said Aaron Au, a co-writer of "Evil Feed".
Certain elements in a work of art may represent, say, a whale, but the whale thus represented may be (as it is in Moby Dick by the 19th-century American writer Herman Melville) a symbol of evil.
The author's view of evil - as expressed through the amoral title character - fascinates writer and philosopher John Gray.
I also thought it was all rather showy, compared with other writers' reticence in the face of evil.
It's a good thing Lindqvist is such a lively, observant writer because, despite the relative paucity of evil, the themes of his fiction can be mighty grim: his characters spend an inordinate amount of time negotiating with the Reaper, in his various forms.
(One of the magazine's former writers, David Frum, coined the phrase "axis of evil").The second thing is persistence.
Other Jacobean dramatic writers became preoccupied with the problem of evil: the plays of John Webster, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and George Chapman induce all the terror of tragedy but little of its pity.
As the 20th-century Catholic writer Charles Journet put it, the non-being of evil "can have a terrible reality, like letters carved out of stone".
He was hailed as a fearless chronicler of evil and as the greatest Russian writer of his time.
In the system of evil jinn outlined by the Arab writer al-Jāḥiẓ, the shaitans are identified simply as unbelieving jinn.
According to Hayward, the OLTL writers "had a terrific time camping up Todd as the embodiment of evil".
