If Dr. Seuss adapted C. S. Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters," he might have created something similar to author D. Brooks Baker's ingenious work of fiction verse "The Devil's Secrets."

"But there are secrets that must remain, or they would ruin his sinister plan, for if God's children learned what the Devil knew, he'd lose his power over man." So begins the story. And it carries on revealing nineteen secrets that Satan is teaching his followers in a special training session on how to keep mankind in the dark.

Laid out in an easy-to-follow format, each chapter is preceded by a quote...