Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). Thirteen O'Clock is his best-known short story collection and contains both those stories.
Three of the stories below have been filmed: "By the Waters of Babylon", "The Devil and Daniel Webster," and "The Sobbin' Women" (as "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers")
1: By the Waters of Babylon
2: The Blood of the Martyrs
3: The King of the Cats
4: A Story by Angela Poe
5: The Treasure of Vasco Gomez
6: The Curfew Tolls
7: The Sobbin' Women
8: The Devil and Daniel Webster
9: Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent
10: Glamour
11: Everybody Was Very Nice
12: A Death in the Country
13: Blossom and Fruit
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