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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)