Works of fiction incorporating Satan

Posted in Art and Culture

Many writers have incorporated the character of Satan into their works. Among the most famous works 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)
  • William Blake's - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790?1793)
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe's - Faust (Part 1, 1808; Part 2, 1832)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's - The Scarlet Letter (1850)
  • Charles Baudelaire's - Litanies of Satan (1857)
  • Imre Madach's - The Tragedy of Man (1862)
  • Giosu? Carducci's - Hymn to Satan (1865)
  • Henrik Ibsen's - Peer Gynt (1867)
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky's - Brothers Karamazov (1880)
  • Mark Twain's - Letters from the Earth (1909)
  • Mark Twain's - The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
  • Aleister Crowley's - Hymn to Lucifer (1919)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson's - Markheim (1925)
  • Stephen Vincent Ben?t's - The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
  • Thomas Mann's - Doktor Faustus (1947)
  • Anatole France's - The Revolt of the Angels (1953)
  • William Golding's - Lord of the Flies (1954)
  • Robert Bloch's - That Hell-Bound Train (1959)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov's - The Master and Margarita (1966)
  • William Peter Blatty's - The Exorcist (1971)
  • Piers Anthony's - Incarnations of Immortality series (1983-1990)
  • Robert A. Heinlein's - Job: a Comedy of Justice (1984)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Steven Brust's - To Reign in Hell: A Novel (2000)
  • Eoin Colfer's - The Wish List (2000)
  • John A. De Vito's - The Devil's - Apocrypha (2002)
  • Glen Duncan's - I, Lucifer (2003)
  • Matthew Moses' Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days (2007)