Carl Sherrell (May 10, 1929 – February 7, 1990) was an American artist, illustrator and author of pulp fantasy, sci-fi, and horror.
His first and most successful attempt was Raum, a sword and sorcery fantasy starring an eponymous anti-hero, the demon Raum, who after being summoned by a wizard into an alternate history medieval Britain causes considerable mayhem before encountering King Arthur, Merlin, Morgan le Fay and other characters of Arthurian Legend who will eventually teach him about life here and inspire him human values.
[2] Despite his first novel's cliffhanger ending, Sherrell would abandon the character and the genre to try a more high fantasy-oriented style in Arcane, starring a fool in a world governed by the rules of tarot.
The horror novel The Curse (1989) would be his last to be published in the English language due to his untimely death in 1990.
However, his manuscript of a third book in the Raum series was translated to Spanish and published in Spain in 1995.