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Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The Devil with a capital D rarely shows up in horror novels. The same is true of his subordinate demons, those fallen angels mentioned in 2 Peter 2:4 and other Biblical passages. At first glance, this seems like an odd omission. After all, a significant proportion of the reading public believes in the Devil, and many even testify to their personal strug…

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