Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils) is a collection of short stories written by Barbey d'Aurevilly and published in France in 1874.

[1] D'Aurevilly, due to the boredom induced by bourgeois life in the French Second Republic, was a dandy.

Similarly, the acts committed by the characters in these stories are induced not only by their extreme passion but also by their boredom.

[1] D'Aurevilly uses récit parlé, a bracketing narrative, as a structural tool for five of the six short stories.

D'Aurevilly defended the work, albeit tongue-in-cheek, by saying that he himself was a Christian and the stories demonstrated the battle of good against evil.