The Devil, or Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles appears frequently as a character in literature. The figure of the Devil or Satan personifies evil. Many writers have incorporated Satan into their works and some of their characters tried to make a deal with the Devil and come up on the winning side. These are their stories: The Bottle Imp (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Sorrows of Satan (Marie Corelli) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) A Modern Mephistopheles (Louisa May Alcott) The Devil and Tom Walker (Washington Irving) The Monk (Matthew Gregory Lewis) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) The Devil's Elixirs (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Devil's Wager (William Makepeace Thackeray) St. John's Eve (Nikolai Gógol) The Mysterious Stranger (Mark Twain) Faust (Goethe)