Various: Devil Stories, LIT v1, 8 April 2010.
Devil Stories: An Anthology [1921]
Selected and Edited With Introduction and Critical Comments by Maximilian J. Rudwin [b. 1885]
A collection of stories about the devil.
CONTENTS
The Devil in a Nunnery A Mediaeval Tale By Francis Oscar Mann
Belphagor, or the Marriage of the Devil (1549) From the Italian of Niccolò Machiavelli
The Devil and Tom Walker (1824) By Washington Irving
From the Memoirs of Satan (1828) From the German of Wilhelm Hauff
St. John’s Eve (1830) From the Russian of Nikolái Vasilévich Gógol
The Devil’s Wager (1833) By William Makepeace Thackeray
The Painter’s Bargain (1834) By William Makepeace Thackeray
Bon-Bon (1835) By Edgar Allan Poe
The Printer’s Devil (1836) Anonymous
The Devil’s Mother-in-Law (1859) From the Spanish by Fernán Caballero
The Generous Gambler (1864) From the French of Charles Pierre Baudelaire
The Three Low Masses (1869) A Christmas Story From the French of Alphonse Daudet
Devil-Puzzlers (1871) By Frederick Beecher Perkins
The Devil’s Round (1874) A Tale of Flemish Golf From the French of Charles Deulin
The Legend of Mont St.-Michel (1888) From the French of Guy de Maupassant
The Demon Pope (1888) By Richard Garnett
Madam Lucifer (1888) By Richard Garnett
Lucifer (1895) From the French of Anatole France
The Devil (1899) From the Russian of Maxím Gorky Translated by Leo Wiener
The Devil and the Old Man (1905) By John Masefield
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