"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.
"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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Blending psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy, the novel A Head Full of Ghosts brought widespread attention to modern possession narratives by exploring family trauma, media exploitation, and narrative ambiguity. Author Paul Tremblay is a New York Times bestselling writer whose fiction spans horror, dark fantasy, mystery, and science fiction.
Born on June 30, 1971, in Aurora, Colorado, Paul Gaetan Tremblay grew up in New England. He attended Providence College for his undergraduate studies and earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Vermont. Before writing full-time, Tremblay established a long-time career as a high school mathematics teacher outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where he continues to live with his family. He began publishing short fiction in 2000 and launched his novel-length career with the hardboiled crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland.
Over his career, Tremblay has received the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards, and has served as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards. His major standalone novels include A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, The Cabin at the End of the World, Survivor Song, The Pallbearers Club, The Beast You Are, Horror Movie: A Novel, and Another. His 2018 thriller The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted by Universal Pictures into the feature film Knock at the Cabin. Tremblay has also published short fiction collections including Growing Things and Other Stories and She Said Destroy, alongside standalone short fiction such as the Amazon Original stories "The Last Conversation" and "In Bloom," and works like Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep. His essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year's best anthologies.
Tremblay's writing is defined by grounded characterization, psychological realism, and a deliberate destabilization of classic horror tropes. Rather than relying solely on supernatural monsters, his narratives frequently utilize unreliable narrators, metafictional frameworks, and ambiguous occurrences that leave supernatural interpretations open to debate. His work explores modern anxieties, pandemic crises, working-class realities, domestic vulnerability, and the emotional complexities of friendship and family.
8 books in catalog
Blending psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy, the novel A Head Full of Ghosts brought widespread attention to modern possession narratives by exploring family trauma, media exploitation, and narrative ambiguity. Author Paul Tremblay is a New York Times bestselling writer whose fiction spans horror, dark fantasy, mystery, and science fiction.
Born on June 30, 1971, in Aurora, Colorado, Paul Gaetan Tremblay grew up in New England. He attended Providence College for his undergraduate studies and earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Vermont. Before writing full-time, Tremblay established a long-time career as a high school mathematics teacher outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where he continues to live with his family. He began publishing short fiction in 2000 and launched his novel-length career with the hardboiled crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland.
Over his career, Tremblay has received the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards, and has served as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards. His major standalone novels include A Head Full of Ghosts, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, The Cabin at the End of the World, Survivor Song, The Pallbearers Club, The Beast You Are, Horror Movie: A Novel, and Another. His 2018 thriller The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted by Universal Pictures into the feature film Knock at the Cabin. Tremblay has also published short fiction collections including Growing Things and Other Stories and She Said Destroy, alongside standalone short fiction such as the Amazon Original stories "The Last Conversation" and "In Bloom," and works like Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep. His essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year's best anthologies.
Tremblay's writing is defined by grounded characterization, psychological realism, and a deliberate destabilization of classic horror tropes. Rather than relying solely on supernatural monsters, his narratives frequently utilize unreliable narrators, metafictional frameworks, and ambiguous occurrences that leave supernatural interpretations open to debate. His work explores modern anxieties, pandemic crises, working-class realities, domestic vulnerability, and the emotional complexities of friendship and family.
