Ray Russell (September 4, 1924 – March 15, 1999) was an American editor and writer of short stories, novels, and screenplays.
[4][5] 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.
For Roger Corman he wrote the screenplays for The Premature Burial (1962) and X (1963)—the former of which was based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story.
[7] In 1976, he published Incubus, a horror novel about a creature raping and murdering young women in a small town.
[8] Russell died of complications resulting from a stroke at a nursing home in Los Angeles, California on March 15, 1999.