02367cam a2200313 i 4500 296139250 TxAuBib 20170612120000.0 150513s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062363237 0062363239 eng rda TxAuBib rda Tremblay, Paul. A head full of ghosts [BOOK] : a novel / Paul Tremblay. New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. 286 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 descent into madness. As their stable 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. 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. When events in the Barrett household 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 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. 20170612. Demonic possession Fiction. Mentally ill children Fiction. Reality television programs Fiction. Schizophrenia Fiction. New England Fiction. Psychological fiction. Horror fiction.