When Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was performed in Exeter in the 16th century, a commentator wrote that during a scene where the devils are conjured from hell, the audience suddenly realised “there was one devil too many among them”, upon which “every man hastened to be first out of doors”. As faith-based moral systems have declined in the West, the idea that evil is literally among us has become redundant, even unfashionable. Yet, despite the loss of older moral concepts, we still need some conceptual systems to describe the existence of our world’s brutally lopsided distribution of suffering – as well as to describe the pleasure that might attend to experiences of doing and being bad. In this issue of TANK, writers, artists, critics, designers and more look to establish what imaginative paradigms might reckon with what evil means in this ongoing brutal century.