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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
A student, later to become Pope Silvester II, makes a bargain with the devil, as a result of which the devil spends twelve hours as Pope, with unexpected results.
Original title: The Demon Pope
Original languages:
English
Quotes: 1 (show them)
Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Historical
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, the (1994) [Anthology]
Authors: Terry Pratchett
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Ray Bradbury
, Tanith Lee
, Lord Dunsany
, John Brunner
, Keith Roberts
, Lucius Shepard
, Mervyn Peake
, Peter S. Beagle
, Poul Anderson
, Larry Niven
, Jack Vance
, James Tiptree, Jr.
, Sterling E. Lanier
, Robert E. Howard
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Abraham Merritt
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Jane Yolen
, Manly Wade Wellman
, Robert Holdstock
, John Buchan
, Angela Carter
, Phyllis Eisenstein
, Richard Garnett
, Thomas Burnett Swann
Tales Before Tolkien (2003) [Anthology]
Authors: L. Frank Baum
, Edith Nesbit
, Lord Dunsany
, William Hope Hodgson
, Arthur Machen
, Abraham Merritt
, John Buchan
, James Branch Cabell
, George MacDonald
, Frank R. Stockton
, William Morris
, H. Rider Haggard
, Ludwig Tieck
, E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen
, Richard Garnett
, Andrew Lang
, Clemence Housman
, Kenneth Morris
, Francis Stevens
, E.A. Wyke-Smith
, Austin Tappan Wright
, David Lindsay
Notes:
- Silvester (or Sylvester) II, originally Gerbert of Aurillac, was Pope from 999-1003. As a scholar and reformer, he was often accused of being in league with the devil, and many legends sprang up regarding his life.
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