The Screwtape Letters - Cultural References

Cultural References

The album Peril and the Patient by Called To Arms is a concept album based entirely on "The Screwtape Letters."

David Foster Wallace praised the book in interviews and listed it first on his list of top ten favorite books.

In 1995, the music video "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2, an animated Bono is seen walking down the street holding the book The Screwtape Letters. While on stage during the Zoo TV Tour Bono would dress as Mr. MacPhisto, his alter ego. Bono would wear a gold suit and devil horns and usually make prank calls to politicians.

The lyrics for the song "Oubliette (Disappear)" from the album The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi by The Receiving End of Sirens were inspired by a passage from "The Screwtape Letters".

In 2010, the Marine Corps Gazette began publishing a series of articles entitled "The Attritionist Letters" styled in the manner of "The Screwtape Letters." In the letters, General Screwtape chastises Captain Wormwood for his inexperience and naivete while denouncing the concepts of maneuver warfare in favor of attrition warfare.

In the Sunday comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's teacher Miss Wormwood, who repeatedly fails to teach Calvin the value of education and attentiveness, is named after Screwtape's protégé.

In 1975, Dr. Walter Martin wrote his own follow-on to the original, called Screwtape Writes Again.