I due esorcisti

“Capture the dragon, the ancient serpent who is Satan, and send him in chains into the Abyss, that he may no longer seduce the nations.” Susan Garth is a sweet little girl of high school age who suddenly develops an aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity (as well as attacking the Leggi tutto

Just so we're clear, I didn't read this book in one day, and nor did I read it just once. I think that one of the problems in discussing this book is that a lot of readers have come to it with expectations of something along the lines of Blatty's The Exorcist , but that just isn't the case. In this n Leggi tutto

A young girl is possessed by the devil - a Catholic priest and bishop must perform an exorcism to save her! Ray Russell’s The Case Against Satan was published in 1962, 9 years before William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist but it’s less well-known probably because of the enormous popularity of the 1973 Leggi tutto

Does Satan exist? A school of thought within some theological circles is that Satan is not a real entity but rather a symbolic concept to help explain evil (little "e") in the world. Certainly, some theologians believe, God exists, but the Devil is a different matter. Of course, another school of tho Leggi tutto

No me atrevo a decir que es la primera novela sobre posesiones demoníacas -porque no lo se-, pero sí puedo decir que es la novela que inspiró El exorcista (entre otras novelas del género). Si buscáis un libro de terror, de esos que te impiden dormir, o de los que hacen que tengas escalofríos, este no Leggi tutto

Technically, it was Ray Russell, not William Peter Blatty, who first brought the Catholic ritual of exorcism to the broad American consciousness. Russell's book predates Blatty's by nine years and the plot lines are so similar that it's hard not to conject that Blatty "borrowed" heavily from Russell Leggi tutto

A couple of years ago I read The Exorcist, and I was blown away. I saw the movie as a teenager like a lot people did. It was the movie you dared your friends to watch and then didn't sleep for a couple of nights because you watched it with them. It's the gold standard for possession/exorcism stories Leggi tutto

Amo las historias sobre exorcismos, así que, ¿cómo no iba a leer la pionera? A partir de acá surgieron varias novelas icónicas sobre posesión demoníaca. Un claro ejemplo es la novela infinitamente más conocida "El exorcista", de William Peter Blatty, obra que toma mucho de "Juicio a Satán". La histo Leggi tutto

Up until a few years ago, the name "Ray Russell" was only familiar to me by dint of his work as a screenwriter on such marvelous horror/sci-fi films as "Mr. Sardonicus" (1961), "The Premature Burial" (1962), "Zotz!" (also from 1962) and "X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes" (1963). It wasn't until I noti Leggi tutto