Sympathy for the Devil

Sympathy for the Devil

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Subjects
Devil > Fiction.
Horror tales.
Published
Portland, Or. : Night Shade 2010.
Language
English
Other Authors
Tim Pratt, 1976- (-)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
"Stories of the Devil"--Cover.
Physical Description
431 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781597801898
  • 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 / Mark 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 / 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).
Review by Booklist Review

This theme anthology includes classics from the nineteenth century (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain); all kinds of goodies from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Robert Bloch's The Hell-bound Train; a parody of Faust by John Kessel and Steven King's The Man in the Black Suit, for a total of 35 stories and a translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow of the 36th canto of Dante's Inferno. The anthology is distinguished for both variety and quality, and is a good purchase for both home and public libraries.--Murray, Frieda Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Hugo winner Pratt turns his Locus-honed editing skills to the crowded field of themed anthologies. His chosen unifying element is the Devil, or devils, broadly interpreted in 36 original and reprinted works. Bygone days are represented by an excerpt from Dante's Inferno; well-known 19th-century tales such as Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp"; and stories from the golden age of pulp fantasy, such as Bloch's "That Hell-Bound Train" and Sturgeon's "The Professor's Teddy Bear." The newer offerings are equally wide-ranging, including Kelly Link's poignant, recursive "Lull"; Holly Black's giggle-out-loud "A Reversal of Fortune"; and China Mieville's vividly creepy "Details." Anyone delighted by con games, terrified of damnation, and not offended by Pratt's cheeky dedication ("Thank you, Satan! I couldn't have done it without you") will find plenty to enjoy. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Library Journal Review

From a tale by Neil Gaiman about a black cat's involvement with his life ("The Price") to John Collier's story of a young boy's "imaginary" playmate ("Thus I Refute Beelzy"), this anthology brings together 36 stories, including Longfellow's translation of Dante's Inferno: Canto XXXIV, featuring the devil in all his guises from Lucifer to Old Nick. Including classics such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp" as well as more recent tales such as China Mieville's "Details" and Holly Black's "A Reversal of Fortune," the stories range from the humorous to the macabre. VERDICT This collection should appeal to fans of dark fantasy and horror. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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