Special thanks are offered to Mr.
John Masefield for his permission to republish his story, and to
Messrs. Arthur Symons and Leo Wiener and to Miss Isabel F. Hapgood for
their permission to use their translations of the foreign stories
which we have selected. To Professor Henry Alfred Todd and Dr. Dorothy
Scarborough, of Columbia University, who have kindly read portions of
the manuscript, the editor is indebted for a number of helpful
suggestions. He adds his thanks to Professor Raymond Weeks, also of
Columbia University, who called his attention to the Daudet story, and
to his former colleague, Professor Otto A. Greiner, of Purdue
University, who was good enough to read part of the proofs.

THE PUBLISHER.
THE EDITOR.

CONTENTS

THE DEVIL IN A NUNNERY 1
_A Mediaeval Tale By Francis Oscar Mann_

BELPHAGOR, OR THE MARRIAGE OF THE DEVIL (1549) 14
_From the Italian of Niccolo Machiavelli_

THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER (1824) 28
_By Washington Irving_

FROM THE MEMOIRS OF SATAN (1828) 46
_From the German of Wilhelm Hauff_

ST. JOHN'S EVE (1830) 56
_From the Russian of Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol_
_Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood_

THE DEVIL'S WAGER (1833) 79
_By William Makepeace Thackeray_

THE PAINTER'S BARGAIN (1834) 93
_By William Makepeace Thackeray_

BON-BON (1835) 112
_By Edgar Allan Poe_

THE PRINTER'S DEVIL (1836) 136
_Anonymous_

THE DEVIL'S MOTHER-IN-LAW (1859) 149
_From the Spanish by Fernan Caballero_
_Translated by J. H. Ingram_

THE GENEROUS GAMBLER (1864) 162
_From the French of Charles Pierre Baudelaire_
_Translated by Arthur Symons_

THE THREE LOW MASSES (1869) 167
_A Christmas Story From the French of Alphonse Daudet_
_Translated by Robert Routeledge_

DEVIL-PUZZLERS (1871) 179
_By Frederick Beecher Perkins_

THE DEVIL'S ROUND (1874) 203
_A Tale of Flemish Golf From the French of Charles Deulin_
_Translated by Isabel Bruce_
_With an introductory note by Andrew Lang_

THE LEGEND OF MONT ST.-MICHEL (1888) 222
_From the French of Guy de Maupassant_

THE DEMON POPE (1888) 228
_By Richard Garnett_

MADAM LUCIFER (1888) 242
_By Richard Garnett_

LUCIFER (1895) 250
_From the French of Anatole France_
_Translated by Alfred Allinson_

THE DEVIL (1899) 257
_From the Russian of Maxim Gorky_
_Translated by Leo Wiener_

THE DEV