Book
Sympathy for the Devil
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).