For over five hundred years, a Daoist temple stood in Beijing. It included eighteen Temples of Hell, each depicting a court of the final judgment, with hundreds of grotesque statues of judges, executioners, and those punished on judgment day for their lifetime misdeeds. Then, in the 1960s, the statues were destroyed by Red Guards seeking to demolish all traces of religion in China. They smashed Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian temples, churches and shrines, and other places of worship. Joe Bennett, a young American living and working in China in the 1940s, photographed the dramatic statues before they were destroyed by the Red Guards. The photos in this book are among the last records of the temples’ demons and victims. For worshipers and tourists, China has now restored the Temples of Hell. You can visit them in Beijing. But gone are the original figures, the gripping monsters. They are a lost Hell, remembered in Bennett’s images.