A Head Full of Ghosts
"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 bizarre outbursts and subsequent descent into madness. As their 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 for a reality television show."--Book jacket.
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A teenager's strange behavior brings priests, doctors, and a reality TV crew into her family's home. Years later her younger sister tries to make sense of what happened.
Yes. A Head Full of Ghosts is a psychological horror novel that frames a family's apparent demonic possession as a reality TV show seen through the memories of the surviving sister. Stephen King praised it publicly, calling it a horror novel that scared him.
Yes. A Head Full of Ghosts won the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel and was a finalist for several other genre awards. It is widely considered one of the best horror novels of the 2010s.
A Head Full of Ghosts was written by Paul Tremblay, published in 2015 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
A Head Full of Ghosts is 161 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, A Head Full of Ghosts takes most readers 2 to 3 hours to finish.
A Head Full of Ghosts is a standalone novel by Paul Tremblay, not part of a series.
A Head Full of Ghosts is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
