DEVILISH DOINGS: 20 Fiendish Tales, Including Stephe Vincent Benet's DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER, And Stories By Chares Dickens, Washingtton Irving, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allen Poe, Max Beerbohm And Others

black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xiii+240p. fiction. novels. short stories. horror stories. ghost stories. (anonymous) doctor faustus. anonymous (countess kathleen o'shea). anonymous (the printer's devil). fernan caballero (the devil's mother in law). charles baudelaire (the generous gambler). richard garnett (madam lucifer). anatole france (lucifer). the devil and the old man. the devil in a nunnery, a medieval tale. ~ Collected in Devilish Doings are twenty tales by some of the world's most famous writers, as well as by anonymous storytellers, who have dabbled with the Dark One. The usual suspects are here as well as the unexpected. Niccolo Machiavelli~the famed author of that most diabolical political treatise, The Prince~is here with "Belphagor," his only work of fiction. That master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, contributes "Bon~Bon" and Washington Irving, the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is here with "The Devil and Tom Walker," another timeless tale of Gothic Americana. J. Sheridan Le Fanu, the Victorian era's greatest writer of the supernatural and the author of "Carmilla," is represented by "Sir Dominick's Bargain," a masterful retelling of an old Irish legend. The Russian short story writer Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol is here with "St. John's Eve," a classic tale of peasant~folk bedevilment. Among the unexpected are offerings by the great English authors Charles Dickens~"The Devil and Mr. Chips"~and William Makepeace Thackeray~"The Painter's Bargain" ~who are better known for their realistic novels. This volume concludes with a story by Stephen Vincent Benet, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" a modern masterpiece of infernal soul~selling that proves Satan is alive and well in the literature of the twentieth century. Whether one believes in the Devil or not, Devilish Doings is a fun collection that will delight anyone with a yen for tales of wonder and bedevilment.…