📚 Hell

The lower world: the idea’s development, its literature, and the dread it administered for centuries.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject hell in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	De coelo et ejus mirabilibus	Emanuel Swedenborg	1867	57
	No Exit (and Three Other Plays)	Jean-Paul Sartre	1945	45
	The marriage of Heaven and Hell	William Blake	1793	34
	The visions of John Bunyan	George Larkin	1725	25
	A vision of hell, and a discovery of some of the consultations and devices there, in the year 1767	Green, Jacob	1770	13
	To Hell and Back	Audie Murphy	1949	10
	Dialogues with the Devil	Taylor Caldwell	1967	9
	Libro del cielo y del infierno	Jorge Luis Borges	1960	8
	Heaven and its wonders	Emanuel Swedenborg	1872	7
	The Evangelical Universalist	Gregory MacDonald	2006	7
	Sense and nonsense about heaven and hell	Kenneth Boa	2007	7
	Heaven and hell	Bart D. Ehrman	2020	7
	A vision of hell	Green, Jacob	1808	6
	That All Shall Be Saved	David Bentley Hart	2019	6
	Buechlein des Hans-Frummann welcher von Himmel und Hoelle zeuget ..	Hans Frummann	1803	5
	Good men in hell	Frank S. C. Wicks	1914	5
	At the master's feet	Sundar Singh	1922	5
	Beyond the shadowlands	Wayne Martindale	2005	5
	Swinburne's Hell and Hick's Universalism	Lindsey Hall	2017	5
	An enquiry into the nature and place of hell	Tobias Swinden	1714	4
	An inquiry into the Scriptural import of the words sheol, hades, tartarus, and gehenna	Walter Balfour	1824	4
	The decline of hell	D. P. Walker	1964	4
	A divine revelation of hell	Mary K. Baxter	1993	4
	The history of hell	Alice K. Turner	1993	4
	Go to hell	Chuck Crisafulli	2005	4
	23 minutes in hell	Bill Wiese	2006	4
	Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell	Bruce Eric Kaplan	2007	4
	The hierarchy of hell	Lauran Paine	1972	3
	The fire that consumes	Edward Fudge	1982	3
	Sign Here	Claudia Lux	2022	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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