The Case Against Satan
Autor Ray Russellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2016
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 rise to the exorcism on page, screen, and even in real life.
Teenager Susan Garth was "a clean-talking sweet little girl" of high school age before she started having "fits"-a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. Then one night, she strips in front of the parish priest and sinks her nails into his throat. If not madness, then the answer must be demonic possession. To vanquish the Devil, Bishop Crimmings recruits Father Gregory Sargent, a younger priest with a taste for modern ideas and brandy. As the two men fight not just the darkness tormenting Susan but also one another, a soul-chilling revelation lurks in the shadows-one that knows that the darkest evil goes by many names.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143107279
ISBN-10: 0143107275
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 130 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0143107275
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 130 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
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
atPlayboy,
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.
Recenzii
Provocative,
shocking,
moving
[Sardonicus is]perhaps the finest example of the modern gothic ever written
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
[Sardonicus is]perhaps the finest example of the modern gothic ever written
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