A Head Full of Ghosts
by Paul Tremblay
4/5
William Morrow Paperbacks 286 pages June 2, 2015
When fourteen-year-old Marjorie Barrett begins showing signs of what her family believes is demonic possession, her desperate father invites a reality TV crew to film an exorcism. Years later, her younger sister Merry recounts what really happened. A razor-sharp deconstruction of possession narratives and media exploitation.
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Tremblay is the master of "wait, what actually happened?" and this book is his masterclass. The entire final third is jaw-on-the-floor stuff — well, worms don't have jaws, but you get the idea. The meta-commentary on reality TV and horror tropes is wickedly smart, and the unreliable narration keeps you second-guessing everything. Is it possession? Mental illness? A hoax? The answer might be all three, and that's what makes it brilliant.
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