Les Diaboliques is a collection of six short stories by Jules Barbey d' Aurevilly, published in November 1874 in Paris by the publisher Dentu.The project for this collection of short stories was originally called Conversation Ricochets. It took Barbey nearly twenty-five years, however, to see it appear since he was already working on it in 1850 when he published Le dessous de cartes d' une partie de whist in the newspaper La Mode in a three-part serial, La Revue des Deux Mondes having refused it. Barbey returned to Normandy as a result of the Commune's events and completed it in 1873.