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Description edit
A tempting collection of satanic stories to lure the reader into infernal regions.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Summary edit
Writers have given the Devil numerous fictional incarnations and a variety of functions. In each of these 17 tales he is stamped with the originality of the creator of the story. Sometimes he is frightening and grotesque, sometimes he is humorous and satiric; but always he is fascinating.
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“I wish I had never invented that particular sin," said the Devil. "I do indeed. There are a thousand million women in the world at this moment, and, with one or two negligible exceptions, every single one of them is damned.”
First Sentence edit
The Devil has fascinated most men, but writers in particular have been so intrigued with the personality of evil that they have given Satan numerous fictional incarnations and a variety of functions.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction, by Ned E. Hoopes
The Devil and Tom Walker, by Washington Irving
The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet
The Painter's Bargain, by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Devil and the Old Man, by John Masefield
The Devil and the Deep Sea, by Rudyard Kipling
Satan and Sam Shay, by Robert Arthur
The Friendly Demon, by Daniel Defoe
The Devil in the Belfry, by Edgar Allan Poe
Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lightning-Rod Man, by Herman Melville
The Devil, by Guy de Maupassant
Madam Lucifer, by Richard Garnett
The Demon Pope, by Richard Garnett
Little St. Michael, by Elizabeth Bowen
The Devil George and Rosie, by John Collier
Dance with the Devil, by Betsy Emmons
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ned E. Hoopes (Editor) - Also wrote Introduction
Other Contributors:
- Blossom (Cover Artist)
- Washington Irving (Contributor) - The Devil and Tom Walker (short story)
- Stephen Vincent BeneĢt (Contributor) - The Devil and Daniel Webster (short story)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (Contributor) - The Painter's Bargain (short story)
- John Masefield (Contributor) - The Devil and the Old Man (short story)
- Rudyard Kipling (Contributor) - The Devil and the Deep Sea (short story)
- Robert Arthur (Contributor) - Satan and Sam Shay (short story)
- Daniel Defoe (Contributor) - The Friendly Demon (short story)
- Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor) - The Devil in the Belfry (short story)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor) - Young Goodman Brown (short story)
- Herman Melville (Contributor) - The Lightning-Rod Man (short story)
- Guy de Maupassant (Contributor) - The Devil (short story)
- Richard Garnett (Contributor) - Madam Lucifer (short story); The Demon Pope (short story)
- Laurence Housman (Contributor) - Little St. Michael (short story)
- Elizabeth Bowen (Contributor) - The Demon Lover (short story)
- John Collier (Contributor) - The Devil George and Rosie (short story)
- Betsy Emmons (Contributor) - Dance with the Devil (short story)
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