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Synopsis

The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the best Satanic short stories by Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Stephen King, Kage Baker, Charles Stross, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, China Mieville, Michael Chabon, and many others, revealing His Grand Infernal Majesty, in all his forms. Thirty-five stories, from classics to the cutting edge, exploring the many sides of Satan, Lucifer, the Lord of the Flies, the Father of Lies, the Prince of the Powers of the Air and Darkness, the First of the Fallen... and a Man of Wealth and Taste. Sit down and spend a little time with the Devil.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Tim Pratt
• The Price - (1997) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Beluthahatchie - (1997) - short story by Andy Duncan
• Ash City Stomp - (2003) - short story by Richard Butner
• Ten for the Devil - (1998) - novelette by Charles de Lint
• A Reversal of Fortune - (2007) - short story by Holly Black
• Young Goodman Brown - (1835) - short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Man in the Black Suit - (1994) - short story by Stephen King
• The Power of Speech - (1974) - short story by Natalie Babbitt
• The Redemption of Silky Bill - (1994) - short fiction by Sarah Zettel
• Sold to Satan - (1923) - short story by Mark Twain
• MetaPhysics - (2007) - short fiction by Elizabeth M. Glover
• Snowball's Chance - (2005) - short story by Charles Stross
• Non-Disclosure Agreement - (2001) - short fiction by Scott Westerfeld
• Like Riding a Bike - (1999) - short story by Jan Wildt
• Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant - (1989) - short story by James Morrow
• And the Deep Blue Sea - (2005) - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• The Goat Cutter - (2003) - short story by Jay Lake
• On the Road to New Egypt - (1995) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
• The God of Dark Laughter - (2001) - short story by Michael Chabon
• The King of the Djinn - (2008) - short story by David Ackert and Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Summon Bind Banish - (2007) - short story by Nick Mamatas
• The Bottle Imp - (1891) - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Two Old Men - (2000) - short story by Kage Baker
• ... With By Good Intentions - (2006) - short story by Carrie Richerson
• Nine Sundays in a Row - (2008) - short story by Kris Dikeman
• Lull - (2002) - novelette by Kelly Link
• We Can Get Them for You Wholesale - (1989) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Details - (2002) - short story by China Miéville
• The Devil Disinvests - (2000) - short story by Scott Bradfield
• Faustfeathers - (1992) - novelette by John Kessel
• The Professor's Teddy Bear - (1948) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Heidelberg Cylinder - (2000) - novella by Jonathan Carroll
• Mike's Place - (2008) - short fiction by David J. Schwartz
• Thus I Refute Beelzy - (1940) - short story by John Collier
• Inferno: Canto XXXIV - poem by Dante Alighieri

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