A controversial new book argues that perhaps there is no hell. Yet, culture delights in showing depictions of the place. TIME offers a small sampling. In Heavenly Puss, a 1949 Tom and Jerry short, Tom ...

Rikers Island detainees drill in the courtyard of the new Sprungs area, where 16- to 18-year-old detainees live and attend school while awaiting trials and sentencing, on December 4, 1991. Nicole ...

In the history of the Catholic Church various saints and blesseds have described what hell is like and even exactly where “bad Christians” would be placed, based on visions and messages they received ...

Long before Christianity, Jewish writings were already imagining fiery realms of judgment. The history of Hell is darker and more complex than most realize Paramount launches a hostile takeover bid ...

"Remember that Twilight Zone where you make your own Hell?" asks the narrator of "The Last Triangle," one of the most haunting stories in Jeffrey Ford's fifth collection, A Natural History of Hell.