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Sympathy for the Devil

Author

Tim Pratt

Call Number

  • FICTION SYMP (CEN)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

San Francisco : Night Shade ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2010.

Physical Description

431 p. ; 23 cm.

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.

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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