Fifteen years later, from her vantage as an adult, Merry narrates what happened to Marjorie and how it broke the Bennett family apart. At the time, Merry is only eight years old she wants Marjorie to feel better. She doesn’t trust anyone, making her parents uncomfortable. She is paranoid and she thinks that everybody is watching her. However, before long, she starts acting strangely. When the book begins, Marjorie is a normal fourteen-year-old teenager. The two main characters are Marjorie and Merry Barrett.
A Head Full of Ghosts takes place in suburban New England. He has a master’s degree in mathematics, and he is a qualified AP Calculus teacher. A bestselling novelist and short story writer, Tremblay also writes pieces for publications including the Los Angeles Times. It won numerous awards including the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. A Head Full of Ghosts received an overwhelmingly positive reception upon publication for how it portrayed the nature of good and evil. 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.Paul Tremblay’s fantasy thriller A Head Full of Ghosts (2015) is about a girl with schizophrenia who may also be a victim of demonic possession. 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.
More specifically, it centers on the lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, who are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. RELATED: OSGOOD PERKINS ON ADAPTING PAUL TREMBLAY’S A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS
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