So I had this new cell phone that would do almost anything—take pictures, text, play games. It even had GPS. Help! I just wanted to use the thing to call around and look for some job opportunities, but I had no idea who to call. I was desperate and had tried everyone I knew already. As a sort of joke, I dialed G-O-D. Well, you know what they always say: Ask and you shall receive. It rang. What would you do if you suddenly discovered your phone gave you direct, physical links to heaven and hell? Stephen is in for the ride (and test!) of his life when he dials G-O-D on his new cell and promptly ends up smack dab in the middle of Hades. As his nether-worldly tour guide shows him around, he sees just what punishments are reserved for the worst of those among us. Find out what Stephen does when he learns he has to suffer through the One Hundred Agonies—without a sinful reaction—to be able to get back home and stay there!

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Risto Mahuno’s agony is what happens to his sweetheart Néné, to his cousin, and to himself. In the east of the Congo, where the border with Rwanda is also the border between life and death, the boys are abducted and forced to become soldiers, the girls raped. Far too much happens for 15-year-old children. Néné is claimed by the warlord, Risto’s cousin killed, and Risto, his eyes already dead, is beaten to the brink. His fate flings him south, on a fraught journey by foot or whatever ride he can get, to Mozambique, where he arrives with even less of himself left. And yet the gods are laughing, for Risto’s journey back holds promise of love, peace and family.

Chaim Aron Kaplan, born in 1880 in Belarus, wrote his "Megillat yissurin" ("Scroll of Suffering") in the Warsaw ghetto. A Zionist who emphasized the role of history in Jewish culture, he wrote his diary in Hebrew for future historians, but lost his belief in God and feared that his diary may serve no purpose if the entire Jewish nation is annihilated. He was killed in Treblinka in 1942.

Angela Lawson works as an agony aunt for a magazine. She's in charge of dolling out advice to troubled readers. She lives with her unemployed flatmate Ellie. They live above Kreepy Kevin, a man with bloodshot eyes. When Kevin goes missing, and the police come round, things all get a little bit Kreepier.