Short Stories About A Deal with the Devil: What would you sacrifice for your dreams to become reality

Written by Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Baudelaire and 6 more

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick and Christopher Ragland

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.

For an atheist it’s a great deal, though it does suggest atheism may have a weak point. For those of faith it’s a matter of jam now and purgatory tomorrow. A bargain many artists feel is something they can live with. For agnostics it’s usually a question of can the afterlife really be that bad, would workplace regulations reach all parts of heaven and hell.

However, in this volume the terms are agreed and the Devil pays his fees and the character his dues, each happy to wait a few decades for the eternal payback.

For us, it’s all a moot point. We would never offer up such a deal. After all just listen to the stories of those who have.

01 - Short Stories About a Deal with the Devil - An Introduction

02 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy

03 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

04 - Belphagor by Niccolo Machiavelli

05 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol

06 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

07 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving

08 - The Generous Gambler by Charles Baudelaire

09 - A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan

10 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff

11 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray

12 - Madam Lucifer by Richard Garnett

13 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach

14 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781803546933

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in Tula, near Moscow. His parents, who both died when he was young, belonged to the Russian nobility, and to the end of his life Tolstoy remained conscious of his aristocratic status. His novels, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ are literary classics and he is revered as one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. He died in 1910 at the age of 82.