Bibliograph

Sympathy for the Devil, [stories of the devil], edited by Tim Pratt

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Label

Sympathy for the Devil, [stories of the devil], edited by Tim Pratt

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Sympathy for the Devil

Oclc number

609535542

Responsibility statement

edited by Tim Pratt

Sub title

[stories of the devil]

Summary

Serpent. Tempter. Beast. Adversary. Rebel. The names of the Devil are many; his faces are legion; his traps are the stuff of legend. Here are the best Satanic short stories revealing His Grand Infernal Majesty, in all his forms

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Tim Pratt -- The price / Neil Gaiman -- Beluthahatchie / Andy Duncan -- Ash City stomp / Richard Butner -- Ten for the devil / Charles de Lint -- A reversal of fortune / Holly Black -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --The man in the black suit / Stephen King -- The power of speech / Natalie Babbitt -- The redemption of Silky Bill / Sarah Zettel -- Sold to Satan / Mart Twain -- MetaPhysics / Elizabeth M. Glover -- Snowball's chance / Charles Stross -- Non-disclosure agreement / Scott Westerfeld -- Like riding a bike / Jan Wildt -- Bible stories for adults, No. 31: The covenant / James Morrow -- And the deep blue sea / Elizabeth Bear -- The goat cutter / Jay Lake -- On the road to New Egypt / Jeffrey Ford -- That hell-bound train / Robert Bloch -- The god of dark laughter / Michael Chabon -- The King of the Djinn / David Ackert and Benjamin Rosenbaum -- Summon, bind, banish / Nick Mamatas -- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Two old men / Kage Baker -- With By good intentions ["With" is struck through] / Carrie Richerson -- Nine Sundays in a row / Kris Dikeman -- Lull / Kelly Link -- We can get them for you wholesale / Neil Gaiman -- Details / China Miéville -- The devil disinvests / Scott Bradfield -- Faustfeathers / John Kessel -- The Professor's teddy bear / Theodore Sturgeon -- The Heidelberg cylinder / Jonathan Carroll -- Mike's place / David J. Schwartz -- Thus I refute Beelzy / John Collier -- Inferno: Canto XXXIV / Dante Alighieri (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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