The hero of this hazardous exploration through Hell is Hiprah Hunt, a lecturer, reformer, ex-preacher, poet and president of a Dante Club. Hiprah Hunt has no tolerance for the modern philosophy that denies the existence of Hell. As a preacher he was what men of the present day call a "back number." Despite "higher criticism" he continually and earnestly advocates the justice of future punishment, and for this reason is known in the town where he lives...