Comics
In Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson named Miss Wormwood (Calvin's elementary school teacher) after Lewis' apprentice devil.[23]
Documentary
Affectionately Yours, Screwtape: The Devil and C.S. Lewis (January 1, 2007), directed by Tom Dallis and written by Amy Dallis, aired on the History Channel.[24]
Literature
In 2010, the Marine Corps Gazette began publishing a series of articles entitled "The Attritionist Letters" styled in the manner of The Screwtape Letters. In the letters, General Screwtape chastises Captain Wormwood for his inexperience and naivete while denouncing the concepts of maneuver warfare in favor of attrition warfare.[25]
Writer David Foster Wallace praised the book in interviews and placed it first on his list of top ten favorite books.[26]
Music
Called to Arms' concept album Peril and the Patient (August 10, 2010) is based entirely on The Screwtape Letters.[27][28]
In U2's music video for the song "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" (1995), an animated Bono is seen walking down the street holding the book The Screwtape Letters. While on stage during the Zoo TV Tour Bono would dress as Mr. MacPhisto, his alter ego. Bono would wear a gold suit and devil horns and usually make prank calls to politicians.
The lyrics for The Receiving End of Sirens' song "Oubliette (Disappear)", from the album The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi (2007), were inspired by a passage from The Screwtape Letters.[29]
In the Christian metal band Living Sacrifice's album Ghost Thief, there is a track titled "Screwtape". Frontman Bruce Fitzhugh explained that the song is "about temptation and the proverbial 'devil on your shoulder.' It's about the thought process we go through to justify a thought or action that is not good for the soul". Fitzhugh also explains how he thought it was interesting Lewis wrote from the perspective of Screwtape and that he wrote from the same perspective in the song.[30]
The group The Oh Hellos released the album Dear Wormwood, which they have described as a form of speculative fiction from the point of view of "the patient".
The three-part song "Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth" on the 2021 album Laysongs by mandolinist Chris Thile was inspired by The Screwtape Letters.[31]
Political discourse
President Ronald Reagan quoted from The Screwtape Letters in his famous 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals.[32]
Antonin Scalia, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court appointed by Reagan, had professed his admiration for the book. In a 2013 interview with New York magazine, Scalia remarked: "The Screwtape Letters is a great book. It really is, just as a study of human nature." The book was mentioned in the highly publicized interview during Scalia's discourse regarding the nature of his Catholic faith.[33]
