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CONTENTS


The Devil in a Nunnery 1

A Mediaeval TaleBy Francis Oscar Mann

Belphagor, or the Marriage of the Devil (1549) 14

From the Italian of Niccolò Machiavelli

The Devil and Tom Walker (1824) 28

By Washington Irving

From the Memoirs of Satan (1828) 46

From the German of Wilhelm Hauff

St. John’s Eve (1830) 56

From the Russian of Nikolái Vasilévich Gógol
Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

The Devil's Wager (1833) 79

By William Makepeace Thackeray

The Painter's Bargain (1834) 93

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Bon-Bon (1835) 112

By Edgar Allan Poe

The Printer's Devil (1836) 136

Anonymous

The Devil's Mother-in-Law (1859) 149

From the Spanish by Fernán Caballero
Translated by J. H. Ingram

The Generous Gambler (1864) 162

From the French of Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Translated by Arthur Symons

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