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 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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