Recently while faffing around I found Wayne Barlowe's page. You may remember him as the artist who did a fun book of extraterrestrials back in the 80s. Apparently one of his recent interests has been Hell, and he did a book on it (illustrated novel? not sure). Some pretty gorgeous imagery and a fairly interesting take on it.
https://waynebarlowe.wordpress.com/artwork/hell/
![Image](https://waynebarlowe.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/barlowe_inferno.jpg)
![Image](https://waynebarlowe.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/barlowe_examination.jpg)
Historically there's stuff like the Inferno (from Dante's Divine Comedy), Paradise Lost by Milton, Hieronymus Bosch's paintings, and what not.
Then you have more modern stuff that either goes funny (Satan as a bureaucrat), over the top (the Dante's Inferno game... apparently Barlowe did some design work for that, actually), traditional (DC Comics'/ Vertigo's depiction of Lucifer, Etrigan, etc)...
What do you enjoy? Anything that has stood out to you lately? Books that you would recommend? Philosophical thoughts?