The Temptations of Satan: 12 Occult Classics
Faustian Bargains, Gothic Diabolic Tales, and Supernatural Visions from Literary MastersBy Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Arthur Machen, Charles Maturin, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Beckford, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Marie Corelli, Leonid Andreyev, William Harrison Ainsworth, Nikolai Gogol
Length112h 22m
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The Temptations of Satan: 12 Occult Classics gathers a transnational lineage of supernatural, Gothic, Symbolist, and proto-modernist writing around the enduring figure of diabolic temptation. Its twelve selections range from fevered Gothic romance and philosophical fantasy to satirical grotesque, psychological horror, and visionary occult tale. Across scenes of pacts, possession, forbidden knowledge, and moral testing, the volume traces how Satan functions not merely as an antagonist but as a figure through whom writers examine desire, skepticism, transgression, and spiritual uncertainty. The contributors span the late eighteenth through early twentieth centuries and include major British, Irish, German, Russian, American, and Polish-born literary voices. Their varied inheritances—Romanticism's sublime revolt, the Gothic's fascination with secrecy and terror, European fantastika, Victorian occult revivalism, and modern psychological pessimism—make the anthology especially rich. Read together, these writers reveal the devil as a flexible cultural symbol, shaped by changing debates over religion, science, sexuality, national tradition, and the unstable boundaries of the self. This collection is strongly recommended to readers of Gothic literature, comparative literature, religious imagination, and the history of the fantastic. It offers the rare opportunity to encounter multiple literary treatments of demonic allure within one compact volume, inviting illuminating comparisons of tone, form, and historical outlook. Both accessible and intellectually rewarding, it fosters a compelling dialogue among classics that continue to unsettle inherited ideas of evil and temptation.
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GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length112 hrs 22 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (Annotated)
26VOLUME III (pt. 2)
2Faust
27VOLUME III (pt. 3)
3Faust (Part One)
28The Sorrows of Satan
4Preface
29I
5An Goethe
30II
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6Dedication
31III
7Prelude-At-The-Theatre
32IV
8Prologue in Heaven
33V
9First Part of the Tragedy (pt. 1)
34VI
10First Part of the Tragedy (pt. 2)
35VII
11Faust (Part Two)
36VIII
12Dramatis Personæ
37IX
13Act I.
38X
14Act II.
39XI
15Act III.
40XII
16Act IV.
41XIII
17Act V.
42XIV
18The Monk
43XV
19PREFACE
44XVI
20VOLUME I (pt. 1)
45XVII
21VOLUME I (pt. 2)
46XVIII
22VOLUME II (pt. 1)
47XIX
23VOLUME II (pt. 2)
48XX
24VOLUME II (pt. 3)
49XXI
25VOLUME III (pt. 1)
50XXII
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