My best friends'exorcism: A Novel by Amazonundefined

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The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act different. She s moody. She s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she s nearby. Abby s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil? Like an unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist, My Best Friend s Exorcism blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of 80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.
Recenzja
One of
Town & Countrys
50 Best Horror Books
National treasure Grady Hendrix follows his classic account of a haunted IKEA-like furniture showroom,
Horrorstor
(2014), with a nostalgia-soaked ghost story,
My Best Friends Exorcism.The Wall Street Journal
Take
The Exorcist
, add some hair spray and wine coolers, and enroll it in high school in 1988 thatll give you
My Best Friends Exorcism
...Campy. Heartfelt. Horrifying.
Minnesota Public Radio
Clever, heartfelt, and get-under-your-skin unnerving.
Fangoria
A touching story of high school friendship and, well, demonic possession.
Bloody Disgusting
Terrific...Sharply written...[
My Best Friends Exorcism
] makes a convincing case for [Hendrixs] powers as a sharp observer of human behavior, filtered through a fun genre conceit that doesnt skimp on the spookyor the bodily fluids.
The A.V. Club
My Best Friends Exorcism
is perfectly spooky, catty fun while simultaneously bringing forth a greater message about friendship, religion, self-image, and the undeniable power of Phil Collins.
Collider
Think
Mean Girls
with demonic possession, set in 1988 Charleston. Its funny, its heart-wrenching, its even a little spiritual, in a very strange way.
Southern Living
magazine The perfect mix of '80s nostalgia and scares.
POPSUGAR
My Best Friends Exorcism
has the same throwback vibes [as
Stranger Things
] and a vintage-looking cover to boot.
Readers Digest
This book packs all the magic of a summer horror flick.
Bustle
If youre looking for a good summer book, something for the beach or the back porch that wont insult your intelligence, one thats tense and sometimes scary and sometimes funny, with characters you may even come to like and admire as they come of age, keep
My Best Friends Exorcism
in mind.
SFFWorld
More praise for Grady Hendrix:
Pure, demented delight.
The New York Times Book Review
, on
Paperbacks from Hell
Horrorstör
delivers a crisp terror-tale...[and] Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror.
The Washington Post
, on
Horrorstör
Hendrixs darkest novel yet will leave readers begging for an encore.
Booklist
, starred review, on
We Sold Our Souls
A true appreciation of the genre.
Los Angeles Times
, on
Paperbacks from Hell
An inventive, hilarious haunted house tale.
Bustle
, on
Horrorstör
A good, creepy, music-tinged thriller.
CNET
, on
We Sold Our Souls
Opis z tylnej okładki książki
The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act different. She s moody. She s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she s nearby. Abby s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil? Like an unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist, My Best Friend s Exorcism blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of 80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.
O autorze
Grady Hendrix
is an award-winning and
New York Times
best-selling novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of
Horrorstör
,
My Best Friends Exorcism
(which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios),
We Sold Our Souls
,
The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires
, and
The Final Girl Support Group
. Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Awardwinning nonfiction book
Paperbacks from Hell
and
These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
.
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The exorcist is dead. Abby sits in her office and stares at the email, then clicks the blue link. It takes her to the homepage of the paper she still thinks of as the News and Courier, even though it changed its name fifteen years ago. Theres the exorcist floating in the middle of her screen, balding and with a ponytail, smiling at the camera in a blurry headshot the size of a postage stamp. Abbys jaw aches and her throat gets tight. She doesnt realize shes stopped breathing. The exorcist was driving some lumber up to Lakewood and stopped on I-95 to help a tourist change his tire. He was tightening the lug nuts when a Dodge Caravan swerved onto the shoulder and hit him full-on. He died before the ambulance arrived. The woman driving the minivan had three different painkillers in her systemfour if you included Bud Light. She was charged with driving under the influence. Highways or dieways, Abby thinks. The choice is yours. It pops into her head, a catchphrase she doesnt even remember she remembered, but in that instant she doesnt know how she ever forgot. Those highway safety billboards covered South Carolina when she was in high school; and in that instant, her office, the conference call she has at eleven, her apartment, her mortgage, her divorce, her daughternone of it matters. Its twenty years ago and shes bombing over the old bridge in a crapped-out Volkswagen Rabbit, windows down, radio blasting UB40, the air sweet and salty in her face. She turns her head to the right and sees Gretchen riding shotgun, the wind tossing her blond hair, shoes off, sitting Indian style on the seat, and theyre singing along to the radio at the top of their tuneless lungs. Its April 1988 and the world belongs to them. For Abby, friend is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse. Im friends with the guys in IT, she might say, or Im meeting some friends after work. But she remembers when the word friend could draw blood. She and Gretchen spent hours ranking their friendships, trying to determine who was a best friend and who was an everyday friend, debating whether anyone could have two best friends at the same time, writing each others names over and over in purple ink, buzzed on the dopamine high of belonging to someone else, having a total stranger choose you, someone who wanted to know you, another person who cared that you were alive. She and Gretchen were best friends, and then came that fall. And they fell. And the exorcist saved her life. Abby still remembers high school, but she remembers it as images, not events. She remembers effects, but shes gotten fuzzy on the causes. Now its all coming back in an unstoppable flood. The sound of screaming on the Lawn. The owls. The stench in Margarets room. Good Dog Max. The terrible thing that happened to Glee. But most of all, she remembers what happened to Gretchen and how everything got so fucked up back in 1988, the year her best friend was possessed by the devil.
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