The Case Against Satan
$30.27
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2015
Summary
The Case Against Satan: A Classic Horror Resurrected
Before The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby, there was The Case Against Satan.
By the twentieth century, the exorcism had all but vanished, wiped out by modern science and psychology. But Ray Russell—praised by Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro as a sophisticated practitioner of Gothic fiction—resurrected the ritual with his classic 1962 horror novel, The Case Against Satan, giving new ris…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143107279 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143107275 |
| Author: | Ray Russell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
“Provocative, shocking, moving.”
Provocative, shocking, moving * Kirkus Reviews *[Sardonicus is] perhaps the finest example of the modern gothic ever written – Stephen KingRussell 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
About The Author
Ray Russell
Ray Russell (1924-1999) was a pioneer of the modern horror genre. As an editor at Playboy, he helped publish such writers as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, and Charles Beaumont. His best known work, Sardonicus, was called by Stephen King “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written.” He received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991.
Laird Barron is a writer of horror fiction. He has received three Shirley Jackson Awards, for his collections The Imago Sequence and Other Stories and Occultation and Other Stories and for his novella Mysterium Tremendum. His other works include two novels, The Light Is the Darkness and The Croning, and a story collection, The Beautiful Things That Awaits Us All. He lives in upstate New York.
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