Better Angel is a novel by Forman Brown first published in 1933 under the pseudonym "Richard Meeker". It was republished as Torment in 1951. It is an early novel which describes a gay lifestyle without condemning it. Christopher Carey called it "the first homosexual novel with a truly happy ending". The novel's title references Shakespeare's Sonnet 144: "the better angel is a man right fair", a poem which has itself been read as having a homosexual subtext.