Literature
Many writers have incorporated the character of Satan into their works. Among them are, in chronological order:
- Dante Alighieri's Inferno (1321)
- Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1604)
- Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer (1654)
- John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667)
- Alain-René Lesage's The Devil on Two Sticks (1707)
- Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love (Le Diable amoureux) (1772)
- William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
- Matthew Lewis' "The Monk" (1796)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (Part 1, 1808; Part 2, 1832)
- James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
- Alexander Pushkin's A scene from Faust (1830)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Asmodeus At Large (1833)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835)
- Mikhail Lermontov's The Devil (1842)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850)
- Charles Baudelaire's Litanies of Satan (1857)
- Imre Madách's The Tragedy of Man (1862)
- Jules Michelet's Satanism and Witchcraft (1862)
- Giosuè Carducci's Hymn to Satan (1865)
- Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1867)
- Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Markheim (1885)
- Mark Twain's A Pen Warmed Up in Hell (1889)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans's Là-bas (1891)
- Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
- Robert Buchanan's The Devil's Case (1896)
- George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple (1901)
- George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman (1903)
- Ferenc Molnár's The Devil (play) (1907)
- Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth (1909)
- Aleister Crowley's Hymn to Satan (1913)
- Anatole France's The Revolt of the Angels (1914)
- Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
- James Branch Cabell's Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919)
- Aleister Crowley's Hymn to Lucifer (1919)
- Aleister Crowley's Liber Samekh
- E. Hoffmann Price's "The Stranger From Kurdistan (1925)
- Frederic Arnold Kummer's Ladies in Hades (1928)
- Carl Heinrich's Orphan of Eternity (1929)
- Theodora Du Bois' The Devil's Spoon (1930)
- Sherard Vines' Return, Belphegor! (1932)
- John Collier's The Devil and All (1934)
- "Murray Constantine's" (Katharine Burdekin) The Devil, Poor Devil! (1934)
- Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
- C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters (1942)
- Alfred Bester's "Hell is Forever" (1942)
- Lord Dunsany's, "A Deal With the Devil" (1946)
- Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947)
- James Branch Cabell's The Devil's Own Dear Son (1949)
- David H. Keller's The Devil and the Doctor (1949)
- Robert Nathan's The Innocent Eve 1951
- William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954) -- source of the musical and film Damn Yankees
- Alfred Noyes' The Devil Takes a Holiday (1955)
- Basil Davenport, Deals With the Devil (anthology) (1958)
- Robert Bloch's That Hell-Bound Train (1959)
- Arthur Calder-Marshall's The Fair to Middling (1959)
- Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1966)
- William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist (1971)
- Harlan Ellison's The Deathbird (1974)
- Natalie Babbitt's The Devil's Storybook (1974)
- Michael Moorcock's The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981)
- Jeremy Leven's Satan (1982)
- Margit Sandemo's The Legend of the Ice People series (1982-1989)
- Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series (1983–1990)
- Robert A. Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
- Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985)
- Isaac Asimov’s Magical Worlds of Fantasy #8: Devils, an anthology of 18 fantasy short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenburg, and Charles Waugh (1987)
- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens (1990)
- Stephen King's "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994)
- Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (1995)
- Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's Left Behind series (1995–present)
- Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil (1996)
- Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust (1997)
- Andrew W. Marlowe's The End of Days (1999)
- Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell: A Novel (2000)
- Eoin Colfer's The Wish List (2000)
- Jeri Smith-Ready's Requiem for the Devil (2001)
- David Weber and John Ringo's Empire of Man (2001–2005)
- John A. De Vito's The Devil's Apocrypha (2002)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series (2002-present)
- Anne Bishop's The Black Jewels (2003)
- Glen Duncan's I, Lucifer (2003)
- Catherine Webb's Waywalkers (2003)
- Thomas E. Sniegoski's The Fallen (2003-2004)
- Bryan Davis' Dragons In Our Midst (2004-2005)
- Bryan Davis' Oracles of Fire (2006-2009)
- Melissa De La Cruz's Blue Bloods series (2006-2013)
- Sean Vincent Lehosit's Lucifer and Lacious (2007)
- Jeff Rovin's Conversations with the Devil (2007)
- Robert Seger's The Father of All Lies (2009)
- Lauren Kate's Fallen series (2009-2012)
- Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim (2009) and the sequel Kill the Dead (2010)
- Joe Hill's Horns (2010)
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