Publisher's Synopsis
The Devil in a Nunnery A Mediaeval Tale By Francis Oscar Mann 7 Belphagor, or the Marriage of the Devil (1549) From the Italian of Niccolo Machiavelli 13 The Devil and Tom Walker (1824) By Washington Irving 19 From the Memoirs of Satan (1828) From the German of Wilhelm Hauff 27 St. John's Eve (1830) From the Russian of Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood 32 The Devil's Wager (1833) By William Makepeace Thackeray 42 The Painter's Bargain (1834) By William Makepeace Thackeray 50 Bon-Bon (1835) By Edgar Allan Poe 60 The Printer's Devil (1836) Anonymous 72 The Devil's Mother-in-Law (1859) From the Spanish by Fernan Caballero Translated by J. H. Ingram 77 The Generous Gambler (1864) From the French of Charles Pierre Baudelaire Translated by Arthur Symons 83 The Three Low Masses (1869) A Christmas Story From the French of Alphonse Daudet Translated by Robert Routeledge 86 Devil-Puzzlers (1871) By Frederick Beecher Perkins 91 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 103 The Legend of Mont St.-Michel (1888) From the French of Guy de Maupassant 115 The Demon Pope (1888) By Richard Garnett 118 Madam Lucifer (1888) By Richard Garnett 125 Lucifer (1895) From the French of Anatole France Translated by Alfred Allinson 130 The Devil (1899) From the Russian of Maxim Gorky Translated by Leo Wiener 133 The Devil and the Old Man (1905) By John Masefield 140 Notes 145 Index 165
