“The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King by José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas

“…In 1977, the magazine 'Cavalier' published a short story by Stephen King under the title of “The Cat from Hell.” King’s cat also drives its owner to physical and mental destruction, as Pluto, the wildcat, and Pitty Sing had done before it. …”
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Problems from Hell, Solution in the Heavens?: Identifying Obstacles and Opportunities for Employing Geospatial Technologies to Document and Mitigate Mass Atrocities by Ben Yunmo Wang, Nathaniel Raymond, Gabrielle Gould, Isaac Baker

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From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) by Roger Burks, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Lucian Fusu, John M. Heraty, Petr Janšta, Steve Heydon, Natalie Dale-Skey Papilloud, Ralph S. Peters, Ekaterina V. Tselikh, James B. Woolley, Simon van Noort, Hannes Baur, Astrid Cruaud, Christopher Darling, Michael Haas, Paul Hanson, Lars Krogmann, Jean-Yves Rasplus

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Les Juifs de la Mitteleuropa : le « ciment » perdu by Igor Fiatti

“…From the expulsion from paradise to the expulsion from hell: this parable signifies the fate of the “cement” of the Mittel-European tradition: Central Europe’s Jewish intellectual élite. …”
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Converting corpses: the religious other in the Munich Oswald and St Erkenwald by Mary Boyle

“…The article considers the possible impact on this tradition of the legend of the Emperor Trajan's post-death relief from Hell, as well as the different deployment of the posthumous conversion motif in each text: the religious other of the Munich Oswald is contemporary yet geographically distant, while the religious other of St Erkenwald is temporally distant but geographically proximate. …”

How do we become better people for the environment? : An appeal to 'green' virtues by Nur Khairah Mohd Samion

“…Often dubbed as the public policy from hell; scientists, politicians, and intellectuals are locked in a constant disagreement. …”
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Territorial Stigmatisation and Poor Housing at a London ‘Sink Estate’ by Paul Watt

“…It argues, however, that rather than internalising the extensive and intensive media-fuelled territorial stigmatisation of their ‘notorious’ estate, as Wacquant’s analysis implies, residents have largely disregarded, rejected, or actively resisted the notion that they are living in an ‘estate from hell,’ while their sense of place belonging has not dissolved. …”
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Book Review: To Ascend Into the Shining World Again by Dr. Rudolph Alexander Jr. by Dr. Sharon E. Moore

“…Alexander’s autobiography, To Ascend Into the Shining World Again was taken from Dante’s Inferno and mirrors Dante’s descent to and ascent from hell. Alexander began life as one of six children born into a two-parent working-class family. …”
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Retrospection and re-orientation in Dante's Ante-Purgatory by Dormor, C

“…Overall, we see that in the liminal and transitional zone that is Ante-Purgatory, the preoccupation with retrospection interrogates and problematizes the division between the damned and the saved in the passage from Hell to Purgatory. Though retrospective elements are of course present throughout the Commedia, I argue that Ante-Purgatory is a particularly privileged space for retrospection precisely because of its liminal textual and geographic position.…”

The <i>Dhāraṇī</i> Coffin from the Nongso Tomb and the Cult of Shattering Hell during the Koryŏ Dynasty by Seunghye Lee

“…The <i>dhāraṇī</i> coffins from Koryŏ and Liao tombs attest that the Buddhists made use of mantras and <i>dhāraṇīs</i> promising salvation of the deceased from hell during their lifetime and beyond. This study shows that two different kinds of <i>dhāraṇīs</i>, which are similarly named and believed to have the power of shattering hell, were practiced by Chinese and Korean Buddhists. …”
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Dramatyzowane homilie patrystyczne zalążkiem dramatu chrześcijańskiego by Stanisław Longosz

“…All fully dramatized homilies of those days are arranged in three groups: The homilies about John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus Christ; The homilies about descending of Jesus Christ into the abyss and libera­tion of those who are righteous from hell; Homilies about the Annunciation of Blessed Virgin Mary – most numer­ous texts. …”
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