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Never Bet the Devil Your Head

short story by Edgar Allan Poe
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Never Bet the Devil Your Head

Summary

Never Bet the Devil Your Head is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head authored Edgar Allan Poe[3].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's image is recorded as Never Bet the Devil Your Head.png[4].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's publisher is recorded as Graham's Magazine[6].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's genre is recorded as comedy horror[7].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's Commons category is recorded as Never Bet the Devil Your Head[8].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's publication date is recorded as +1841-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03cg2qt[12].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's has edition or translation is recorded as Q51688663[13].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 237071[14].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Never Bet the Devil Your Head'}[15].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': '“Con tal que las costumbres de un autor,” says Don Thomas de las Torres, in the preface to his “Amatory Poems”, “sean puras y castas, importa muy poco que no sean igualmente severas sus obras”—meaning, in plain English, that, provided the morals of an author are pure personally, it signifies nothing what are the morals of his books.'}[16].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature NILF ID is recorded as 1063251[17].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "The scoundrels refused to pay it, so I had Mr. Dammit dug up at once, and sold him for dog's meat."}[18].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's derivative work is recorded as Toby Dammit[19].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's copyright status is recorded as public domain[20].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's copyright status is recorded as public domain[21].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's NooSFere story ID is recorded as 21720[22].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's FantLab work ID is recorded as 8793[23].
  • Never Bet the Devil Your Head's form of creative work is recorded as short story[24].

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Works and Contributions

Never Bet the Devil Your Head authored Edgar Allan Poe[3].

Why It Matters

Never Bet the Devil Your Head ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Edgar Allan Poe literary work public domain United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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