num_pages: 286
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Head Full of Ghosts
publisher: William Morrow