In this essay, Lewis primarily seeks a sensational heap of supernatural horrors, repulsive crimes (from incest to slaughter), manifestations of pathological, sadistic, perverted erotica. The Lewis world is a confused, chaotic world where people are obsessed with fatal, unbridled passions; satanic obsession is the main engine of the sinister story of the monk Ambrosio, who, having succumbed to the devilish temptation, will fall away from the church, worship Satan, and commit heinous crimes with his help.
