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The idea of making a deal with the devil has appeared many times in works of popular culture. The theme enjoyed a large run of popularity in the twentieth century. At one point Anthony Boucher, editor of ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', "reported that fully 50 percent of his unsolicited submissions consisted of deal-with-the-Devil stories or "formalities of the hereafter", which as often as not involved the Devil".〔Darrell Schweitzer, "The Devil" in S. T. Joshi, ed., ''Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: an Encyclopedia of our Worst Nightmares'' (Greenwood, 2007), (p. 161-186) ISBN 0313337810〕 == In print == * In many variants of the Aarne-Thompson type 361, of which ''Bearskin'' is an instance, the hero escapes, but the devil still comes off the better: the heroine's sisters have killed themselves, and he has gained two souls instead of one. * The story of Theophilus of Adana, a saint who made a deal with the devil, predates the Faust legend and is a likely partial inspiration. * The compact between human ''hubris'' and diabolical intelligence raises the old tale to its cultural peak in Goethe's ''Faust''. Other works depicting deals with the Devil include: * ''The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus'', by Christopher Marlowe * ''Faust'', by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * ''Der Zwerg'', by Christian August Vulpius, Goethe's brother-in-law * ''Faust'', opera by Charles Gounod * ''The Devil upon Two Sticks'' (1707), novel by Alain-René Lesage〔 * ''The Black Spider'' (''Die Schwarze Spinne''; 1842), novella by Jeremias Gotthelf * ''The Devil in Love'', novel by Jacques Cazotte〔Wells Chamberlin, "Jacques Cazotte" in ''Supernatural Fiction Writers'', edited by E. F. Bleiler. New York: Scribner's, 1985, ISBN 0-684-17808-7 (pp.29-35).〕 * ''Vathek'', novel by William Beckford〔Franz Rottensteiner, ''The Fantasy Book:an illustrated history from Dracula to Tolkien''. Collier Books, 1978, (pp. 20-21). ISBN 0020535600〕 * ''The Monk'', novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis * ''The Devil's Elixir'', novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann * ''The Bottle Imp'', by Robert Louis Stevenson * ''Mefistofele'', opera by Arrigo Boito * ''St. John's Eve (short story)'', by Nikolai Gogol * ''Mephisto'', novel by Klaus Mann * ''The Master and Margarita'', novel by Mikhail Bulgakov * ''Melmoth the Wanderer'', novel by Charles Maturin * ''The Bet'', by Anton Chekhov * ''The Devil and Tom Walker'', short story by Washington Irving * ''Sir Dominick's Bargain'' (1872), short story by Sheridan Le Fanu〔 * ''The Demon Pope'' (1888), short story by Richard Garnett〔 * ''The Devil and Daniel Webster'', short story based on the Washington Irving story; by Steven Vincent Benét * ''The Devil to Pay in the Backlands'', novel by Guimarães Rosa * ''Pani Twardowska'', poem by Adam Mickiewicz * ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', novel by Oscar Wilde: The Devil does not explicitly appear, but Dorian Gray vocally offers his soul in exchange for eternal youth so that a painting will age for him. * ''Gimmicks Three'', by Isaac Asimov * ''The Unfortunate Fursey'' and ''The Return of Fursey'', novels by Mervyn Wall.〔Robert Hogan, "Mervyn Wall", in Bleiler, ''Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror''. New York: Scribner's, 1985. (pp.645-650) ISBN 0-684-17808-7 .〕 * ''The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant,'' a novel by Douglass Wallop, upon which ''Damn Yankees'', the musical theatre production and film by George Abbott and Stanley Donen was based * ''That Hell-Bound Train'', by Robert Bloch * ''Timm Thaler'', a 1962 children's novel by German author James Krüss * ''Rosemary's Baby'', novel by Ira Levin * '' * ''Jack Faust'', novel by Michael Swanwick * ''Memnoch the Devil'', by Anne Rice * ''The Da-Da-Dee-Da-Da Code'' by Robert Rankin * ''Young Goodman Brown'', by Nathaniel Hawthorne * ''Hellblazer'' storyline ''Dangerous Habits'', John Constantine cons the Lords of Hell into curing his cancer. * ''Kuroshitsuji'' or ''Black Butler'', a manga by Yana Toboso * The ''Spider-Man'' storyline ''One More Day'': Uninterested in Spider-Man's soul as such a deal would leave him tormenting a soul that knows it suffers so that a loved one would live, Mephisto heals Spider-Man's Aunt May in exchange for erasing his marriage to Mary Jane Watson from memory. * ''Peter Schlemiel'' by Adelbert von Chamisso * In ''Death Note'' by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, the main character, Light Yagami, inadvertently makes a pact with a Shinigami (jap. angel of death) Ryuk, which enables him to kill almost anyone by writing their name in his notebook, but in return not being able to enter neither heaven nor hell. * In ''The Devil in Velvet'' by John Dickson Carr, a deal with the devil allows the protagonist to travel back in time in order to solve a crime. * ''Demon Candy: Parallel'', an original English-language manga by Lord Dragon Master, in which lead character Jonathan is tricked into selling his soul for a Klondike bar, and is sent to Hell where he becomes an incubus. Jonathan then makes a second deal in order to try and regain his soul. * In ''The Poisonwood Bible'' by Barbara Kingsolver, Rachel says she would sell her soul to the devil to get out of the Congo. After her "devil savior" (Eeben Axelroot) rescues her, she becomes a cruel, heartless woman. * ''Sold to Satan'' by Mark Twain 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deals with the Devil in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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