The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell

The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell

By the 20th century, the centuries-old Roman Catholic exorcism ritual for combatting demonic possession was all but dead, eviscerated by the ascent of modern science and rationalism. But Ray Russell's 1962 novel, The Case Against Satan, set the stage for a proliferation of exorcisms on page, screen, and even bizarrely, in real life.

Provocative, shocking, moving * Kirkus Reviews *
[Sardonicus is] perhaps the finest example of the modern gothic ever written -- Stephen King
Russell links postpulp literature and the Grand Grand Guignol tradition with the modern sensibilities of America in the 1960s.. a fascinating combination of the liberal and the heretic -- Guillermo del Toro

RAY RUSSELL was born in 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, and served in the United States Air Force during World War II in the South Pacific. After the war, he attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music and eventually joined the editorial staff at Playboy, where he published such writers as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Jack Finney, Robert Bloch, and Charles Beaumont. His best-known work, 'Sardonicus', was called by Stephen King 'perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written'. He died in Los Angeles in 1999.

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ISBN 13	9780143107279
ISBN 10	0143107275
Title	The Case Against Satan
Author	Ray Russell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2016-05-05
Number of pages	160
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