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The Case Against Satan BY RAY RUSSELL FOREWORD BY LAIRD BARRON PENGUIN CLASSICS, l6o PAGES, $15
Ray Russell enjoys the distinction and curse of being a horror writer's horror writer. Though he helped rescue baroque gothic tales from Lovecraftian tendrils with his more Hemingwayesque renderings, he achieved nothing higher than cult status. Better-known figures such as Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro tout him, and his short story "Sardonicus," a minor classic, received a film adaptation for which he wrote the screenplay.
Still, a majority of Russell's bibliography remains out of print. If one wants to find a copy of Unholy Trinity, a 1967 paperback is available on Amazon for as little as $19.99 and as much as $83.95. A few updated and mercifully cheaper editions are fairly recent developments. In 2013, Penguin released a story collection,...