diabolist

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Enoch Soames is a sub-Baudelaire diabolist who manages to travel forward in time to see if he is remembered in the future.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 3, 2015

Partly due to its proximity to Darjeeling, plenty of expeditions had attempted Kangchenjunga, including in 1905 a team that included the diabolist Aleister Crowley.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2011

I suggest a series of articles pointing out how dreary, how inhuman, how downright diabolist, is the very smell and atmosphere of some of these great houses.

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

"It will be the more pleasant, our little deal," the devil went on, "because you are—I mistake not?—a diabolist."

From Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties by Beerbohm, Max, Sir