Works based on Faust

• Faust by Jules Perrot (1848)
• Faust ballets

• Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 75 no 3 (1809) Song – Aus Goethes Faust: "Es war einmal ein König"
• Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
• Giuseppe Verdi's Perduta ho la pace (1838)
• Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1840)
• Felix Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht (1843)
• Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (1845–46) (sometimes performed in staged opera versions)
• Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges', Op. 33: 2nd Movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847)
• Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853)
• Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (1854–57) and Mephisto Waltzes
• Henryk Wieniawski's Fantaise brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20. (1865)
• Jean-Delphin Alard's Fantaisie de concert sur Faust, Op. 47 (c. 1868)
• Henri Vieuxtemps's Fantasie sur "Faust" de Ch. Gounod (c. 1869)
• Pablo de Sarasate's "Nouvelle fantaisie sur 'Faust'", Op. 13 (1874)
• Modest Mussorgsky: "Mephistopheles' song of the flea" (1879) is a version of the song that Mephistopheles sings in the tavern scene of Goethe's Faust, pt. 1, also previously set by Beethoven.
• Emilie Mayer's Faust Overture (1880)
• Jean Roger-Ducasse's Au jardin de Marguerite, symphonic poem with chorus (1905)
• Gustav Mahler's Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonata No.1 (1908)
• Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène (1913)
• Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony (1919–27) and opera Faust
• Julius Röntgen's Aus Goethes Faust (1931)
• Hans Werner Henze's Chor gefangener Trojer (1948)
• Alexander Lokshin's Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust (for soprano and orchestra) (1980)
• Alfred Schnittke's Faust Cantata (1982–83)

• Louis Spohr's Faust (1816)
• Louise Bertin's Fausto (1831)
• Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (1846)
• Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
• Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868)
• Meyer Lutz's romantic opera Faust and Marguerite and his burlesque Faust up to date (1888)
• Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916–25)
• Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel (1927; first performed 1954)
• Hermann Reutter's
  • Doktor Johannes Faust, Op. 47 (1936, revised 1955)
  • Don Juan und Faust, Op. 75 (1950)
• Douglas Moore's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1938)
• Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938 libretto)
• Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951)
• Hanns Eisler's Johann Faustus (1952 libretto)
• Havergal Brian's Faust (1955–56)
• Henri Pousseur (music) and Michel Butor (libretto), Votre Faust (1960–68), and related "satellite" works
• Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus (1983), libretto by Hugo Claus
• Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
• Rudolf Volz's Rock Opera Faust with original lyrics by Goethe (1997)
• John Coolidge Adams' Doctor Atomic (2005)
• Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night (2006)

• Classics Illustrated #167
• Hellblazer, storyline Dangerous Habits
• Ghost Rider
• Faust, a series of graphic novels
• The Adventures of Nero
• Spawn
• Defoe
• Faust, Der Tragödie erster Teil by German artist Flix
• Felix Faust
• Sebastian Faust

• Osamu Tezuka's Faust (1950)
• Shaman King (1998)
• Full Metal Alchemist (2001)
• Black Butler (2006)
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)
• Frau Faust (2014)
• Black Clover (2015)

• Blues guitarist Tommy Johnson claimed to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar mastery. Tommy Johnson's claim precedes that of Robert Johnson's.
• Blues guitarist Robert Johnson fancifully said to have acquired his playing skill from the devil at a deserted crossroads. Songs such as "Cross Road Blues" (1936) and "Me and the Devil Blues" (1937) allude to his pact with the devil.
• Faun's song "König von Thule" is a cover of Gretchen's song in the first part of Goethe's Faust (lines 2759-82). Goethe wrote this particular song in 1774.
• Poet JB Goodenough's "Children of Michael" which tells the story of a man named Michael who makes a deal with the year (the devil or fate), to have many children but the year has to "choose one for himself". The story features a chorus throughout, and was recorded by Irish folk singer Tommy Makem on his album Ancient Pulsing.
• The Band's "Daniel and the Sacred Harp" (from the album Stage Fright, 1970)
• Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (from the album A Night at the Opera, 1975)
• Frank Zappa's "Titties & Beer" (from the album Zappa in New York, 1977)
• The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (from the album Million Mile Reflections, 1979)
• Blue Öyster Cult's "Burnin' for You" (from the album Fire of Unknown Origin, 1981)
• The Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger" single (from the album Synchroncity, 1983) refers to Mephistopheles by way of analogy
• Konrad Boehmer Apocalipsis cum figuris (electronic, instrumental, vocal, 1984)
• The Fall's "Dktr Faustus" (from the album Bend Sinister, 1986)
• Sabbat's "A Cautionary Tale" (from the album History of a Time to Come, 1988)
• Randy Newman's Faust (1995)
• Moonspell's "Mephisto" (from the album Irreligious, 1996)
• Akercocke's "Marguerite & Gretchen" (from the album Rape of the Bastard Nazarene, 1999); the band's name is taken from the talking Capuchin monkey in Robert Nye's Faust.
• Current 93's album Faust (2000), based on a story by Count Eric Stenbock
• The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night (2000)
• Secret Sphere's "Dr. Faustus" (from the album A Time Never Come, 2001)
• Dimmu Borgir's "The Maelstrom Mephisto" (from the album Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, 2001)
• Gorillaz' "Faust" (from the album G-Sides, 2001)
• Septic Flesh's "Faust" (from the album Sumerian Daemons, 2003)
• Muse's "The Small Print" (from the album Absolution, 2003; originally titled "Action Faust")
• Kamelot's Epica Saga (Epica, 2003, and The Black Halo, 2005)
• Cradle of Filth's "Absinthe with Faust" (from the album Nymphetamine, 2004)
• Immortal Technique's "Dance With The Devil" (from the album Revolutionary Vol. 1, 2006)
• Konrad Boehmer Doktor Fausti Höllenfahrt (orchestra, 2006)
• Tom Waits's "Lucinda" (from the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, 2006)
• Enigma "Dancing With Mephisto" (from the album A Posteriori, 2006)
• Tenacious D's The Pick of Destiny (2006)
• Little Tragedies' New Faust (2006)
• Switchfoot's "Faust, Midas and Myself" (2006)
• Streetlight Manifesto's "Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe" (from the album Somewhere in the Between, 2007)
• Radiohead's "Faust Arp" and "Videotape" (from the album In Rainbows, 2007)^[2]
• Ihsahn's "Alchemist" (from the album angL, 2008) quotes two passages from Goethe's Faust. The songs "Malediction" and "Elevator" likewise allude to Faustian themes
• Dark Moor's "Faustus" (from the album Autumnal, 2009)
• The Human Abstract's "Faust" (2011)
• Agalloch's Faustian Echoes (2012)
• SicKtanicK's "Faust" (from the album Chapter 3: Awake (The Ministry of Hate), 2012)
• Marilyn Manson's "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (from the album The Pale Emperor, 2015)
• Halsey's "Hold Me Down" (from the album Badlands, 2016) makes a number of sexualized Faustian allusions
• Iron Mask's "Doctor Faust" (from the album Diabolica, 2016)
• Faust is the stage name of black metal musician Bård Eithun.
• Faust, a German Krautrock band
• Ghost's "Call Me Little Sunshine" (From the album Imperia, 2022). Mephistophles is the main protagonist of the song, trying to steal "little sunshines" body.

• Stingy Jack
• The Tailor Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
• The Little Mermaid
• Wicked John and the Devil (Appalachian folklore)

• The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897; France)
• The Damnation of Faust (1903; France)
• Faust and Marguerite (1904; France)
• The Student of Prague (1913; Germany)
• Rapsodia satanica (1915; Italy)
• Faust (1926; Germany)
• The Student of Prague (1926; Germany)
• The Legend of Faust (1949; Italy)
• Marguerite de la nuit (1955; France)
• Faust (1960; Germany)
• El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969; Spanish)
• Mephisto (1981; Hungary)
• Doctor Faustus (1982; West Germany)
• Faust (1994) (1994, coproduction Czech Republic, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany)
• The Master and Margarita (1994) (TV; Russia)
• Faust: Love of the Damned (2000: Spain)
• Fausto 5.0 (2001: Spain)
• Ultraman Nexus (2004-2005: Japan)
• Faust (2011: Russia)
• When the Devil Calls Your Name (2019: South Korea)

• Faust and Marguerite (1900)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
• Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
• Alias Nick Beal (1949)
• Up in Smoke (1957)
• Damn Yankees (1958)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Bedazzled (1967)
  • Bedazzled (2000)
• Doctor Faustus (1967)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
• The Omen (1976)
  • Damien: Omen II (1978)
  • Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
  • Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)
  • The Omen (2006)
• The Shining (1980)
• The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
• Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
• Crossroads (1986)
• Angel Heart (1987)
• Hellraiser (1987)
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
  • The Little Mermaid (2023)
• The Devil's Advocate (1997)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
• Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
• The Witch (2015)
• American Satan (2017)
• Upgrade (2018)
• The Last Faust (2019)

Television:

• The Twilight Zone Episodes:
  • Escape Clause (1959)
  • Still Valley (1961)
  • Printer's Devil (1963)
  • Of Late I Think of Cliffordville (1963)
  • The Last Night of a Jockey (1963)
  • Dealer's Choice (1985)
  • I of Newton (1985)
  • Time and Teresa Golowitz (1987)
• Dinosaurs:
  • Life in the Faust Lane (1994)
• I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
• Paradise City (2021)

• Faust (1976–1979)

• Faustbuch, anonymous German (1587), the earliest known Faust work
• Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (1602)
• Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (A-text 1604, B-text 1616)
• William Mountfort's The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, made into a farce (1697)
• John Rich's The Necromancer, or Harlequin Dr. Faustus (1723)
• John Thurmond's Harlequin Doctor Faustus (1723) and The Miser, or Wagner and Abericock (1726)
• Gotthold Lessing's Doktor Faust, mentioned in a contribution to a magazine (1759), but otherwise left unfinished and collected and published posthumously (1784) in its original, incomplete form
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1806–1832)
• Christian Dietrich Grabbe's Don Juan und Faust (1829)
• Alexander Pushkin's A scene from Faust (1830)
• Nikolaus Lenau's Faust (1836)
• George Sand's Les Sept Cordes de la Lyre (1838)
• Heinrich Heine's Der Doktor Faust. Ein Tanzpoem (1851)
• Dion Boucicault's Faust and Margaret (London, 1854)
• Friedrich Theodor Vischer's Faust. Der Tragödie dritter Teil (Faust: Part Three of the Tragedy, 1862), a parody of Goethe's Faust Part Two
• H. J. Byron's Little Doctor Faust (1877) (a musical burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre)
• W. S. Gilbert's Gretchen, an 1879 play based on Goethe's version of the Faust legend
• Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat (1918), a theatrical piece "to be read, played and danced" with a libretto by C.F. Ramuz
• Anatoly Lunacharsky's Фауст и город (Faust and the City) (1918)
• Michel de Ghelderode's La Mort du Docteur Faust (1925)
• Fernando Pessoa's Fausto Tragédia Subjectiva (Faust Subjective Tragedy)
• Dorothy L. Sayers' The Devil to Pay (1939)
• Paul Valéry's Mon Faust (unfinished 1940)
• Cabin in the Sky (1940)
• Richard Adler and Jerry Ross's Damn Yankees (1955)
• Václav Havel's Temptation (1986)
• Richard Schechner's Faust Gastronome (1994)
• Todd Alcott's Jane Faust (1995)
• George Axelrod's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
• Little Shop of Horrors, a musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken based on The 1960 Film (1982)
• David Ives's Don Juan in Chicago (1995)
• John Jesurun's Faust/How I Rose (1996)
• La Fura dels Baus's Faust: Version 3.0 (1998)
• David Mamet's Faustus (2004)
• Punchdrunk's Faust in Promenade (2006–2007)
• David Davalos' Wittenberg (2008)
• Edgar Brau's Fausto (2009), a play
• David Massingham and Matthew Townend's Plague! The Musical (2008)

• George Gordon, Lord Byron's Manfred (1817)
• Estanislao del Campo, Fausto (1866) (in Spanish)
• D. J. Enright's "A Faust Book" (1975)
• Carol Ann Duffy's "Mrs. Faust"
• Charles Baudelaire's "Châtiment De L`Orgueil (Punishment of Pride)" (1857) and "The Generous Gambler" (posthumous 1869)
• Karl Shapiro's "The Progress of Faust"
• J. M. R. Lenz's "Die Hollenrichter" (unfinished)
• Hart Crane's "Of the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"
• Joseph Brodsky's "Two Hours in Reservoir"
• Alexandre Pushkin's "Little Tragedies"

• Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's Fausts Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt (1791)
• Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796)
• Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
• Pauline Hopkin's Of One Blood (1902)
• Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
• G. W. M. Reynolds' Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals and Wagner, the Wehr-wolf (both 1847)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
• Ivan Turgenev's Faust (1855)
• Charles Baudelaire's The Generous Gambler (1864)
• Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)
• Samuel Adams Drake's Jonathan Moulton and the Devil (1884)
• Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
• Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's Quincas Borba (1891)
• Peadar Ua Laoghaire's Séadna (Written in Munster Irish, serialised in the 1890s)
• Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
• Alfred Jarry's Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician (1898)
• Valery Bryusov's The Fiery Angel (1908)
• Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (1909–10)
• Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1929–40)
• Klaus Mann's Mephisto (1936)
• Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
• Horace L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp's None But Lucifer (1939)
• Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947)
• John Myers Myers's Silverlock (1949)
• Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
• William Gaddis' The Recognitions (1955)
• Mack Reynolds' "Burnt Toast" (1955)
• João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956)
• Roger Zelazny's For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
• John Hersey's Too Far to Walk (1966)
• James Blish's Black Easter (1968) and The Day After Judgment (1971)
• Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)
• Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins (1971)
• William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel (1978)
• Robert Nye's Faust (1980)
• Stephen King's Christine (1983)
• John Banville's Mefisto (1986)
• Clive Barker's The Damnation Game (1986)
• Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart (1986)
• Carl Deuker's On the Devil's Court (1989)
• Nelson DeMille's The Gold Coast (1990)
• Terry Pratchett's Faust Eric (1990)
• Alan Judd's The Devil's Own Work (1991)
• Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley's If at Faust You Don't Succeed (1993)
• Kim Newman's The Quorum (1994)
• Tom Holt's Faust Among Equals (1994)
• Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues (1995)
• Jeanne Kalogridis's The Diaries of the Family Dracul's trilogy (1995, 1996, 1997)
• Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust (1997)
• Howard Waldrop's "Heart Of Whitenesse" (1997)
• Timothy Taylor's Stanley Park (2001)
• Maureen Johnson's Devilish (2006)
• Jonathan L. Howard's Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
• David Macinnis Gill's Soul Enchilada (2009)
• Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2014), Chapter 5 ponders over a Faustian bargain that is in the spirit of Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer.
• Oliver Pötzsch's The Master's Apprentice (2018)
• V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020)

• Animamundi: Dark Alchemist
• Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
• Faust (published as "Seven Games of the Soul" in North America)
• GrimGrimoire
• Guilty Gear (series)
• Knights Contract
• Xenogears
• Persona 2: Innocent Sin
• Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
• Shadow of Memories
• The Seventh Guest
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Willard Wyler is based loosely off of the legend of Faust and Mephistopholes)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone
• Cuphead
• Limbus Company

• Devil in popular culture