For millennia the Devil has captivated writers, artists, and their audiences. Whether in the form of a crafty trickster, tragic antihero, or malevolent deity, the Devil entrances, excites, and repels us at once. Here in this definitive collection find famous takes on Satan himself from the epic verses of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, or George Meredith, the plays of Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to the folktales of William Butler Yeats, Charles Baudelaire, Anton Chekhov, and Washington Irving. Includes the The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake's tortured reflections on lust, humanism, and temptation as well as short stories by Francis Oscar Mann, Niccolo Machiavelli, Wilhelm Hauf, Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, William Makepeace Thackeray, Fernan Caballero, Alphonse Daude, Frederick Beecher Perkins, Charles Deulin, Guy de Maupassan, Richard Garnett, Anatole France, Maxim Gorky, John Masefield.