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![]() ![]() In 1991 Russell received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. ![]() Russell was also one of the screenwriters for Roger Corman's X (also known as X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes) and The Premature Burial (based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story). In this capacity Russell published a large amount of science fiction, fantasy and horror in the magazine Russell also encouraged and promoted the fiction of Charles Beaumont. A very good or better copy of a scarce edition of this book. Glue loosening with some separation between pages 18 & 19, but all still intact some minor edge-wear and chipping to spine pages toned. died Los Angeles, California: 15 March 1999. : Sardonicus and Other Stories: Paperback original. In the 1950s, Russell began working for Playboy magazine as a fiction editor. born Chicago, Illinois: 4 September 1924. Darrell Schweitzer described The Case Against Satan as "a Catholic Turn of the Screw" and said the novel "succeeded brilliantly" in making the concept of the Devil frightening to modern readers. It was published almost a decade before a more famous novel with a similar plot, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. Russell's first novel was The Case Against Satan (1963), about a young girl possessed by a demon. ![]() ![]() "Sardonicus" was part of a trio of stories with "Sanguinarius" and "Sagittarius". American writer Stephen King called "Sardonicus" "perhaps the finest example of the modern gothic ever written". His most famous short fiction is "Sardonicus", which appeared in the January 1961 issue of Playboy magazine, and was subsequently adapted by Russell into a screenplay for William Castle's film version, titled Mr. ![]()
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