A Head Full of Ghosts

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The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-oldMarjorie 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 homedevolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderlysuggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He alsocontacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight. With John, Marjorie's father, outof work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon findthemselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barretthousehold 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 longago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories thatclash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface - and a mind-bending tale of psychologicalhorror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the verynature of evil.

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"A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I'm pretty hard to scare." Stephan King. "Weather psychological or supernatural, this is a work of deviously subtle horror." Publishers Weekly (starred review) on A Head Full of Ghosts.

Author Bio

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Disappearance at Devil's Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Little Sleep. He is currently a member of the board of directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly.com, and numerous year's-best anthologies. He has a master's degree in mathematics and lives outside Boston with his family. www.paultremblay.net