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• vi • General Introduction (Heaven and Hell) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 1 • Heaven and Hell and All That • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 4 • The Last Judgment • poem by Cynewulf
• 8 • Introduction (African Heaven) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 8 • African Heaven • (1959) • poem by Francis Ernest Kobina Parkers
• 12 • Introduction (Stagolee) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 12 • Stagolee • short story by Julius Lester
• 25 • Introduction (What Price Heaven?) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 25 • What Price Heaven? • short story by Howard Maier
• 48 • Introduction (The Last Ghost) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 48 • The Last Ghost • (1971) • short story by Stephen Goldin
• 56 • Introduction (Chances Are) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 56 • Chances Are • (1971) • short story by Alice Laurance
• 67 • Introduction (The Gray Ones) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 67 • The Gray Ones • short story by J. B. Priestley (variant of The Grey Ones 1953)
• 85 • Introduction (The Dead) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 85 • The Dead • (1958) • poem by Denise Levertov
• 89 • The Paths of Good and Bad Intention • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 93 • Introduction (Our Lady's Juggler) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 93 • Our Lady's Juggler • (1926) • short story by Anatole France (trans. of Le jongleur de Notre-Dame 1892)
• 100 • Introduction (Benjamen Burning) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 100 • Benjamen Burning • short story by Joyce Madelon Winslow
• 118 • Introduction (The Devil Grows Jubilant) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 118 • The Devil Grows Jubilant • poem by Daniel B. Straley
• 120 • Introduction (How the Devil Redeemed the Crust of Bread) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 120 • How the Devil Redeemed the Crust of Bread • short story by
  Лев Толстой^?Lev Tolstoy
  (trans. of How the Devil Redeemed the Crust of Bread) [as by Leo Tolstoy]
• 124 • Introduction (The Happy Hypocrite) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 124 • The Happy Hypocrite • (1896) • novelette by Max Beerbohm
• 150 • Introduction (A Ballad of Hell) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 150 • A Ballad of Hell • poem by John Davidson
• 157 • Bargains with the Devil • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 160 • Introduction (Ballad of Faustus) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 160 • Ballad of Faustus • poem by Anonymous
• 164 • Introduction (The Devil and Daniel Webster) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 164 • The Devil and Daniel Webster • (1936) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
• 180 • Introduction (Satan and Sam Shay) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 180 • Satan and Sam Shay • (1942) • short story by Robert Arthur
• 196 • Introduction (The Devil and the Old Man) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 196 • The Devil and the Old Man • (1905) • short story by John Masefield
• 203 • Introduction (Thus I Refute Beelzy) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 203 • Thus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 209 • Introduction (The Devil Was Sick) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 209 • The Devil Was Sick • (1951) • short story by Bruce Elliott
• 221 • Reward and Retribution • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 224 • Introduction (The White Stone Canoe) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 224 • The White Stone Canoe • (1969) • short story by John Bierhorst
• 228 • Introduction (Go Down, Death!) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 228 • Go Down, Death!: A Funeral Sermon • (1927) • poem by James Weldon Johnson
• 232 • Introduction (From the Inferno) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 232 • From the Inferno • poem by Dante Alighieri (trans. of From the Inferno) [as by Dante]
• 239 • Introduction (The Devil and Tom Walker) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 239 • The Devil and Tom Walker • [The Money-Diggers • 3] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving
• 252 • Introduction (Right and Wrong) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 252 • Right and Wrong • poem by Hesiod
• 254 • Introduction (A Masque of Reason) • essay by Joan D. Berbrich
• 254 • A Masque of Reason • (1945) • poem by Robert Frost