Danielewski and Marisha Pessl-while also feeling fresh and utterly new. Deeply funny and intensely terrifying, it's a sensory rollercoaster and not to be missed., Crackling with dark energy and postmodern wit Paul Tremblay's superb novel A Head Full of Ghosts evokes the very best in the tradition-from Shirley Jackson to Mark Z.

superb novel evokes the very best in the tradition-from Shirley Jackson to Mark Z. Paul Tremblay's terrific A Head Full of Ghosts generates a haze of an altogether more serious kind: the pleasurable fog of calculated, perfectly balanced ambiguity., Crackling with dark energy and postmodern wit. 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. Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.

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. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness.

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. Danielewski's House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.

A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z.

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