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Speak of the Devil

Sterling North & C. B. Boutell

First published 1945
Publisher Doubleday, Doran
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Salvador Dali
Pages xi+334
Price $3.00

  • Contents from Worldcat and The Supernatural Index.
  • Cover artist on front flap of Archive.org copy (Book Club Edition); artist's signature on bottom of cover, to the right of the editors' names.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Preface (The Smell of Sulphur) Sterling North & Clip Boutell Essay
3 Enoch Soames Max Beerbohm Novelette
27 The Devil in a Nunnery Francis Oscar Mann Short Story
34 The Litanies of Satan Charles Pierre Baudelaire Poem
36 The Devil and the Broker Bret Harte Short Story
39 The Devil's Age Franchun Beltzarri Short Story
40 Thus I Refute Beelzy John Collier Short Story
45 General Preface (Foreign Devils) Sterling North & Clip Boutell Essay
46 The Generous Gambler Charles Pierre Baudelaire Poem
49 The Legend of Mont St.-Michel Guy de Maupassant Short Story
53 The Three Wishes William Carleton Novelette
73 The Devil and the Innkeeper Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
74 Wandering Willie's Tale (excerpt) Sir Walter Scott Short Story
90 St. John's Eve Nikolai Gogol Short Story
105 Divine Comedy: Canto XXXIV Dante Alighieri Poem
109 Of the Devil and His Works (excerpt) Martin Luther Short Fiction
111 A Day in Nuremberg B. E. König Essay
113 Ghost Story Selma Lagerlöf Short Story
124 How Fryer Bacon Saved a Gentleman That Had Given Himselfe to the Devill (excerpt) William J. Thoms Short Fiction
128 The Devil and the Lady Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
131 The Devil and the Old Man John Masefield Short Story
135 The Devil, George, and Rosie John Collier Novelette
153 Preface (The War in Heaven) Sterling North & Clip Boutell Essay
155 Paradise Lost (excerpt) John Milton Poem
159 Revolt of the Angels (excerpt) Anatole France Short Fiction
165 Preface (The Faust Legend) Sterling North & Clip Boutell Essay
166 Faust (excerpt) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Short Fiction
184 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (excerpt) Christopher Marlowe Short Fiction
223 Preface (The Djinn Bottle) Sterling North & Clip Boutell Essay
224 Asmodeus: or, The Devil on Two Sticks Alain René Le Sage Short Story
252 Bottle Party John Collier Short Story
259 Preface (The Devil Quotes Scripture) Sterling North & Clip Boutell Essay
262 The Three Low Masses Alphonse Daudet Short Story
268 The Demon Pope Richard Garnett Short Story
276 The Screwtape Letters (excerpt) C. S. Lewis Short Fiction
281 Preface (Satan Finds the New World) Sterling North & Clip Boutell Essay
287 The Devil and Tom Walker Washington Irving Short Story
297 The Devil in Manuscript Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
303 Balaam Foster's Fiddle Chapman J. Milling Short Story
308 Satan and Sam Shay Robert Arthur Short Story
321 The Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent Benét Short Story
vi Foreword (Speak of the Devil) Sterling North & Clip Boutell Essay