I have just completed publishing on my web site and YouTube my reading of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. http://bsh.bscottholmes.com/Hadleyburg I didn't find it so much a Faustian tale but more an instance of the devil coming to collect his due. The town had sold their souls long before the stranger came and tempted them. I was gratified to read in the introduction and afterward of The Oxford Mark Twain edition corroboration of my own opinion albeit far more knowledgeable than my own.