Before and after The City of Dreadful Night, James Thomson wrote biting pieces for the secularist press, and G. W. Foote collected them here. They include ‘The Devil in the Church of England’, ‘Religion in the Rocky Mountains’, a mock business history of the Trinity called ‘The Story of a Famous Old Jewish Firm’, and a study of Jesus as God and as man.
Mordant Victorian anti-religious satire, praised by W. K. Clifford as worthy of Swift. Download the free EPUB.