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Book Review: The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell
Title: The Case Against Satan
Author: Ray Russell
Published: Penguin, 2015 (1962)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 170
Total Page Count: 534,170
Text Number: 1956
Read Because: saw this pop up in a Yuletide letter, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Immediately after being relocated to a new parish, a priest is confronted with an apparent possession. This is a brief, dense, directed book, contained and complete. As the priest wrestles with his belief in the existence of Satan, as a congregation looks suspiciously at the strange goings-on at the rectory, the possession and exorcism are seen from all angles, belief and doubt, spiritual and psychosomatic, clear or complicated. I didn't find this scary, but it's an engaging, lively metaphysical puzzlebox.
Author: Ray Russell
Published: Penguin, 2015 (1962)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 170
Total Page Count: 534,170
Text Number: 1956
Read Because: saw this pop up in a Yuletide letter, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Immediately after being relocated to a new parish, a priest is confronted with an apparent possession. This is a brief, dense, directed book, contained and complete. As the priest wrestles with his belief in the existence of Satan, as a congregation looks suspiciously at the strange goings-on at the rectory, the possession and exorcism are seen from all angles, belief and doubt, spiritual and psychosomatic, clear or complicated. I didn't find this scary, but it's an engaging, lively metaphysical puzzlebox.