"By the Waters of Babylon" is a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benet in 1937. The story is narrated by a man called John who is the son of a priest, and the story is set in the future, after the destruction of industrial civilization. The...

"The Devil and Daniel Webster" is American myth; it remains the foundational contribution by an American artist to the Faust myth. Stephen Vincent Benet originally published the short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1936. The next year it...