A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS
by Paul Tremblay

  • I read it between Mar 1 & 2, 2017
  • Genre: HORROR, SUPERNATURAL

I wish I’d written this ...

... because it's scary, refreshing, and fantastic.

If you think stories of supernatural possession are stale, that there’s nothing original left to say, that all attempts pale in comparison to The Exorcist, then I urge you to read this terrifyingly awesome novel. It is as refreshing and as chilling as ice. It will hook you from the outset and kick your expectations hard in the butt. It will scare you, undermine you, inspire you, make you laugh, break your heart, and leave you wide-eyed and slack-jawed (probably with a dangling string of drool). It is highly likely that soon after finishing A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS you will find yourself thinking, "I’m going to read A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS again." In all probability, you'll also find that reading this one will change how you read every other horror novel. That’s how damned good it is. I'm happily stunned.

From the publisher

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.

To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight. With John, Marjorie's father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.

Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface--and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.

From the novel





About Mark Hodder

Mark Hodder is the author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK and its sequels, and of the first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel to have been published in nearly half a century (he created and maintains BLAKIANA: The Sexton Blake Resource). He also writes short stories, flash fiction and vignettes. Find out more on his Patreon page. Mark was born in the UK but currently lives in Valencia, Spain, with his partner and two children.

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