Shrine (novel)
 Shrine (1983) is a horror novel by James Herbert exploring themes of religious ecstasy mass hysteria demonic possession faith healing and Catholicism. The story is about Alice Pagett a deaf-mute child who's cured one night when she runs to an oak tree behind St. Joseph's her local church. She's found by reporter Gerry Fenn and when news of her cure spreads their village becomes ablaze with publicity.