Best Faustian
Mephisto is a 1981 drama concerning a German actor’s rise to fame during the ascent of Nazism. The film depicts his increasing entanglement with the regime through a successful Faustian role, ultimately prioritizing political expediency over personal identity. His career and life become defined by s...
"Melmoth the Wanderer" is an 1820 Gothic novel by the Irish clergyman and writer Charles Maturin. The story centers on a scholar who makes a pact with the devil to gain 150 years of extended life, wandering the earth in a fruitless attempt to find someone willing to take over his curse. Composed of...
The Damnation Game is a 1985 horror novel and the literary debut of British author Clive Barker. The story centers on Marty Strauss, a convicted gambler and thief who is hired as a bodyguard for a wealthy, reclusive industrialist. Strauss soon discovers that his employer achieved success through a F...
