Editing The Screwtape Letters (section)

== Literary sequels ==
=== "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" ===
The short sequel "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" (1959), first published as an article in ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', is an addendum to ''The Screwtape Letters''; the two works are often published together as one book.<ref>{{Cite book |last= Lewis |first= C. S. |author-link= C. S. Lewis |year= 2001 |title= The Screwtape Letters, with Screwtape Proposes a Toast |publisher= HarperSanFrancisco |isbn= 0-06-065293-4 }}</ref> The sequel takes the form of an [[after-dinner speech]] given by Screwtape at the Tempters' Training College for young devils. In stage adaptations it is sometimes added as a prelude, making the work a prequel.<ref name="youtube.com">{{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqplwDEz9o0 |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/sqplwDEz9o0| archive-date= 2021-12-11 |url-status= live |title= The Screwtape Letters — as performed by the Queens Players |date= 4 January 2014|via= www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref> "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" is Lewis' criticism of leveling and [[featherbedding]] trends in [[public education]]; more specifically, as he reveals in the foreword to the American edition, [[Education in the United States|public education in America]] (though in the text, it is [[Education in England|English education]] that is held up as the purportedly awful example).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" by C.S Lewis a critique of American education? |url=http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2008/09/is-screwtape-proposes-toast-by-cs-lewis.html |access-date=2023-02-23 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

The [[Cold War]] opposition between the [[Western Bloc|West]] and the [[Communist Bloc|Communist World]] is explicitly discussed as a backdrop to the educational issues. Screwtape and other devils are portrayed as consciously using the subversion of education and intellectual thought in the West to bring about its overthrow by the [[communist]] enemy from without and within. In this sense "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" is more strongly political than ''The Screwtape Letters'', wherein no strong stand is made on political issues of the day, such as [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news |author= Hein, David |title= A Note on C. S. Lewis's ''The Screwtape Letters''|work= [[The Anglican Digest]] |volume= 49 |number= 2 |date= 2007 |pages= 55–58}}</ref>

=== Other literary sequels ===
Though C. S. Lewis had resolved not to write another letter, and only revisited the character of Screwtape once, in "Screwtape Proposes a Toast", the format, referred to by Lewis himself as a kind of "diabolical ventriloquism", has inspired other authors to prepare sequels or similar works, such as:

* Breig, Joseph A. (1952). ''The Devil You Say''.
* {{cite book |author= Martin, Walter R. |isbn= 978-0-88449-033-3 |date= 1975 |title= Screwtape Writes Again|publisher= Vision House }}<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780884490333/198728758 |title= 9780884490333: Screwtape Writes Again - AbeBooks - C. S. Lewis: 0884490335 |website= Abebooks.com |access-date= 24 November 2018}}</ref>
* {{cite book |author= Kreeft, Peter |title= The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society as Taught in Tempter's Training School |isbn= 978-0-89870-721-2 |date= 1998|publisher= Ignatius Press }}
* {{cite book |title= Lord Foulgrin's Letters |author= Alcorn, Randy |isbn= 978-1-57673-861-0 |date= 2001|publisher= Crown Publishing }}
* {{cite book |author= Bryan Miles |title=The Wormwood Letters |isbn= 978-0-595-28392-7 |date= 2003|publisher=iUniverse }} Wormwood, who has somehow survived, now finds himself in a new era writing to his own nephew, Soulsniper.
* Fejfar, Antony J. (2004). ''The Screwtape Emails: An Allegory''.
* {{cite book |author= Forest, Jim |title= The Wormwood File: E-mail From Hell |isbn= 978-1-57075-554-5 |date= 2004 |publisher= Orbis Books |url= https://archive.org/details/wormwoodfileemai0000fore}} Another Wormwood series of instructions.
* {{cite book |title= The Devil's Inbox |author= Laymon, Barbara |isbn= 978-0-8066-4945-0 |date= 2004 |publisher= Augsburg Books |url= https://archive.org/details/devilsinbox0000laym}}
* {{cite book |author= Williams, Arthur H. Jr. |title= The Screwtape Email |isbn= 978-1-4120-0067-3 |date= 2006|publisher= Trafford }}
* Longenecker, Dwight (2009). ''The Gargoyle Code: Lenten Letters between a Master Tempter and his diabolical Trainee''. {{ISBN|978-0-615-67385-1}}. Master Tempter Slubgrip advises Dogwart how to corrupt a young Catholic, while struggling to control his own 'patient.'
* {{cite book |title=The Michael Letters: Heaven's answer to Screwtape |author=Peschke, Jim |isbn= 978-1-4536-6027-0 |date= 2010|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform }} The Archangel Michael provides advice to Jacob, a guardian angel.
* {{cite book |title= As One Devil to Another: A Fiendish Correspondence in the Tradition of C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters |author= Platt, Richard |isbn= 978-1-4143-7166-5 |date= 2012 |publisher= Tyndale House Publishers |url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781414371665}}
* Andrews, Pat. (2014). ''E-mails from Hell: An Homage and Update to C.S. Lewis''.
* {{cite book |author= Deace, Steve. |title= A Nefarious Plot. |isbn= 978-1-61868-823-1 |date= 2016|publisher= Simon and Schuster }}<ref>{{cite book |title= A Nefarious Plot |last= results |first= search |date= 16 February 2016 |publisher= Post Hill Press |isbn= 978-1-61868-823-1}}</ref>
* Aldridge, R.J. (2019). ''The Wormwood Emails: Inside Tips on Avoiding Hell''.
* {{cite book |author= Cyprus, J.B.|title=Letters to Bentrock: A Demon's Guide To Trapping Prey. |isbn= 978-1-63977-278-0 |date= 2022|publisher=Wolfpack Publishing LLC }}<ref>{{cite book |title= Letters to Bentrock: A Demon's Guide To Trapping Prey |last= results |first= search |date= 31 January 2022 |publisher= CKN Christian Publishers |isbn= 978-1-61868-823-1}}</ref> The tempters are working in a Texas prison to keep The Inmate on the wide and easy road to their home below.