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The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics)
Ray Russell
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Description for The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics)
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 11. Weight in Grams: 130.
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. Just a few weeks ago, Susan Garth was a very good girl, a clean-talking sweet little girl of high school age. But that was before she started having fits -a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. If ... Read more
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. Just a few weeks ago, Susan Garth was a very good girl, a clean-talking sweet little girl of high school age. But that was before she started having fits -a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. If ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780143107279
SKU
V9780143107279
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About Ray Russell
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Case Against Satan (Penguin Classics)
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 [Sardonicus is] perhaps the finest example of the modern gothic ever written
Stephen King Provocative, shocking, moving
Kirkus Reviews
Guillermo del Toro [Sardonicus is] perhaps the finest example of the modern gothic ever written
Stephen King Provocative, shocking, moving
Kirkus Reviews