Devil Stories, An Anthology

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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
Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

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
Translated by J. H. Ingram

The Generous Gambler (1864)
From the French of Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Translated by Arthur Symons

The Three Low Masses (1869)
A Christmas Story From the French of Alphonse Daudet
Translated by Robert Routeledge

Devil-Puzzlers (1871)
By Frederick Beecher Perkins

The Devil’s Round (1874)
A Tale of Flemish Golf From the French of Charles Deulin
Translated by Isabel Bruce
With an introductory note by Andrew Lang

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
Translated by Alfred Allinson

The Devil (1899)
From the Russian of Maxím Gorky
Translated by Leo Wiener

The Devil and the Old Man (1905)
By John Masefield