Chapter I: DEVIL STORIES First Series

_In Preparation:_

DEVIL PLAYS
DEVIL ESSAYS
DEVIL LEGENDS
THE BOOK OF LADY LILITH
ANTHOLOGY OF SATANIC VERSE
BIBLIOGRAPHIA DIABOLICA

_BOOKS BY MAXIMILIAN J. RUDWIN_

The Prophet and Disputation Scenes in the Religious Drama of the German Middle Ages.

The Devil Scenes in the Religious Drama of the German Middle Ages.

The Devil in the German Religious Plays of the Middle Ages and the Reformation. [Hesperia: Johns Hopkins Studies in Modern Philology, No. 6.]

The Origin of the German Carnival Comedy.

_In Preparation:_

The Devil in Modern French Literature.

TO ALL STUDENTS OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN LITERATURE

NOTE

The preparation of this book would have been out of the question without the co-operation of authors and publishers. Proper acknowledgment has been given on the first page of each selection to the publishers who have granted us permission to reprint it. We take this opportunity to express once more our deep appreciation of the courtesies extended to us by all the parties concerned in the material between the covers of this book. Special thanks are offered to Mr. John Masefield for his permission to republish his story, and to Messrs. Arthur Symons and Leo Wiener and to Miss Isabel F. Hapgood for their permission to use their translations of the foreign stories which we have selected. To Professor Henry Alfred Todd and Dr. Dorothy Scarborough, of Columbia University, who have kindly read portions of the manuscript, the editor is indebted for a number of helpful suggestions. He adds his thanks to Professor Raymond Weeks, also of Columbia University, who called his attention to the Daudet story, and to his former colleague, Professor Otto A. Greiner, of Purdue University, who was good enough to read part of the proofs.

THE PUBLISHER.
THE EDITOR.

CONTENTS

THE DEVIL IN A NUNNERY 1
_A Mediaeval Tale By 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_

THE THREE LOW MASSES (1869) 167
_A Christmas Story From the French of Alphonse Daudet_
_Translated by Robert Routeledge_

DEVIL-PUZZLERS (1871) 179
_By Frederick Beecher Perkins_

THE DEVIL'S ROUND (1874) 203
_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) 222
_From the French of Guy de Maupassant_

THE DEMON POPE (1888) 228
_By Richard Garnett_

MADAM LUCIFER (1888) 242
_By Richard Garnett_

LUCIFER (1895) 250
_From the French of Anatole France_
_Translated by Alfred Allinson_

THE DEVIL (1899) 257
_From the Russian of Maxím Gorky_
_Translated by Leo Wiener_

THE DEVIL AND THE OLD MAN (1905) 268
_By John Masefield_

NOTES 279

INDEX 325