PENGUIN CLASSICS : THE CASE AGAINST SATAN PB B – RAY RUSSELL

"By the 20th century, the centuries-old Roman Catholic exorcism ritual for combatting demonic possession was all but dead, eviscerated by the ascent of modern science and rationalism. But Ray Russell s 1962 novel, The Case Against Satan, set the stage for a proliferation of exorcisms on page, screen, and even bizarrely, in real life. Just a few weeks ago, Susan Garth was ""a very good girl, a clean-talking sweet little girl"" of high school age. But that was before she started having ""fits""-a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. If not madness, then the answer must be demonic possession, for which there is only one response: exorcism."