Curated playlist

Fiction about the Devil

The Sandman (comic book)The Sandman, a dark fantasy comic book written by Neil Gaiman for DC Comics, began with a question about a catch. Gaiman remembered the day DC editor Karen Berger offered him a Sandman series. His own reply, as he told it, was: "Um... yes.…
Divine ComedyDante wrote the Divine Comedy while exiled from Florence for the rest of his life.
Goethe's FaustIn Goethe's Faust, the Devil first appears as a stray poodle. It follows the scholar Faust home from a walk.
Inferno (Dante)Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem The Divine Comedy, begins with a man who has lost his way. He is 35 years old and says he stands "midway in the journey of our life." The age is deliberate, because it is half…
Paradise LostParadise Lost, the epic poem, gives its best speeches to the devil. It opens in Hell after Satan's failed revolt.
Megami TenseiMegami Tensei reached Japanese players on the 11th of September 1987, when Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei launched on the Famicom. The game grew out of a science-fiction novel series by Aya Nishitani, and the franchise took its name…
Devilman CrybabyDevilman Crybaby, in the words of Newsweek's Emily Gaudette, was "the bloodiest, most profane animated series of the year." Masaaki Yuasa directed the Netflix series, which arrived on the 5th of January 2018. Within days it had become one…
CupheadCuphead is a run and gun video game whose two creators remortgaged their house to finish it. Brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer ran Studio MDHR, a tiny Canadian indie team, and the game they were building looked like nothing else on the…
Blue ExorcistIn Blue Exorcist, a teenager pulls a sword and learns he is the son of Satan. His flames burn blue.
Lucifer (DC Comics)Lucifer Morningstar ruled Hell for more than ten billion years, and the sentence that put him there lasted far longer than his crime. According to the comics, he rebelled against Creation for just three seconds. This version of the Devil…