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• Bacchanalien • essay by Titus Livius [as by Livius]
• Die schwarze Messe • essay by Jules Michelet
• Der Prozeß des Gilles de Rais • essay by Georges Bataille
• Die Messen des Abbé Guibourg: Zur Montespan-Affaire • essay by
  François Ravaisson^?Francois Ravaisson
• Das Geständnis der Magdalena Bavent^?Das Gestaendnis der Magdalena Bavent
  • essay by
  Joseph von Görres^?Joseph von Goerres
  [as by
  Joseph Görres^?Joseph Goerres
  ]
• Justine im Kloster Sainte-Marie-des-Bois • [Excerpts from "Justine"] • short fiction by Marquis de Sade
• Der Besessene • (1955) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of
  Le Possédé^?Le Possede
  1868)
• Satanslitaneien • (1955) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Les litanies de Satan 1857)
• Gebet • (1955) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of
  Prière^?Priere
  1868)
• Die Hexen von Trasmoz • short story by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (trans. of Cartas desde mi celda (Carta octava) 1864) [as by Gustav Adolf Becquer]
• Die Schwarze Messe des Kanonikus Docre • short story by Joris-Karl Huysmans (trans. of Là-bas : "La messe du chanoine Docre" 1891) [as by Joris Karl Huysmans]
• Meister Leonhard • (1916) • novelette by Gustav Meyrink
• Das Heiligtum • short story by E. F. Benson (trans. of The Sanctuary 1934)
• Der schwarze Magier • short fiction by Dennis Wheatley (trans. of The Black Magician (excerpt from The Satanist) 1960)
• Das Opfer • short story by Robert Bloch (trans. of Sweet Sixteen 1958)
• Nachwort (Schwarze Messen: Dichtungen und Dokumente) • essay by Ulrich K. Dreikandt