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1) The exorcist
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Series
Language
English
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"A horror story for all midnights." — The Boston Globe
Inspired by the shockingly true story of a child's demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty's iconic novel focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C. When sweet Regan's behavior turns sinister, a small group of overwhelmed yet determined individuals take it upon themselves
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies--and solving murders. But she's concerned by just how many killers she's had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count...but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths is unnatural. But when someone Sherry was close to ends up dead, and her cat, Lord Thomas Crowell, is possessed by what seems to be an ancient demon,...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (190 pages) : chiefly illustrations
Language
English
Description
Reigen is an exorcist who pretends to be able to rid people of ghosts while paying his student assistant, Shigeo, who possess real psychic abilities, a small fee to perform the actual work. Sensitive and kind, the awkward Shigeo is exploited by his mentor who knows that the repressed memories the young man has locked away could unleash a psychic storm like nothing either has ever seen before.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (approximately 4.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is one of the most ancient, arcane, and, to some, embarrassing rites of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet the number of priests in Italy trained as exorcists has risen tenfold over the past decade - and they are still unable to keep up with the skyrocketing demand for their services.
Award-winning foreign correspondent Tracy Wilkinson reveals that "devil detox", as some call it, is a booming industry, complete with motivational speakers, international...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A non-denominational exorcist shares the story of her work wrestling hostile entities from infected souls, in an account that also offers insights into how pain and trauma can make people vulnerable to energy-draining negative forces. This book recounts Rachel Stavis' journey to becoming an exorcist and chronicles some of her most extreme cleansings cases. Rachel teaches us that there are a diverse range of "entities" surrounding us. Frightening,...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Demons have come to kill, steal, and destroy. They take possession of lives, oppress believers and wreak havoc on the plans of God for His people. Could they be the source of YOUR struggles? Jesus did not say to counsel demons out or to medicate them out; He said, "Cast them out!" Every day, we give demons too much power when in fact, Jesus has given us authority to bind them and command them to leave. In When Pigs Move In, Don Dickerman delivers...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
103 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The unnamed and morally questionable narrator is an exorcist with great follow-through and few doubts. His methods aren't delicate but they're undeniably effective: he'll get the demon out--he just doesn't particularly care what happens to the person. Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world's first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he's demonically possessed" -- Page [4] of cover.
10) The good demon
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It wasn't technically an exorcism, what they did to Clare. When the reverend and his son ripped her demon from her, they called it a "deliverance." But they didn't understand that Clare and her demon--known simply as Her--were like sisters. She comforted Clare, made her feel brave, helped to ease her loneliness. They were each other's Only. Now, Clare's only comforts are the three clues that She left behind: Be nice to him; June 20; Remember the...
11) Soulswift
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the word of the One True God through song. Cloistered with the other Vessels of her faith, she believes--as all Ovinists do--that a saint imprisoned Elath the Great Demon centuries ago, saving humanity from earthly temptation. When Gelya stumbles into a deadly cover-up by the Ovinists' military, she reluctantly teams up with Tavik, an enemy soldier, to survive. Tavik believes that Elath is actually a mother...
Author
Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Takes the reader deep into this hidden and fascinating world of paranormal activity and details eerie true-life tales of demonic attacks, oppressions, and possessions.
Successful New York psychiatrist Richard Gallagher was skeptical yet intrigued when a hard-nosed, no-nonsense Catholic priest asked him to examine a woman for a possible exorcism. Meeting her, Gallagher was astonished. The womans behavior defied logic. In an instant, she could pinpoint...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A skeptical attorney defends a Catholic priest accused of criminal negligence after a "possessed" girl he performed an exorcism on dies. Based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a young German Catholic woman who died in 1976.
15) Shutter
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens. With an analog SLR camera as her best weapon, Micheline exorcises ghosts by capturing their spiritual energy...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reverend travels to a farm to perform and film what he believes to be his last routine exorcism, and finds himself unprepared for the unspeakable horror he finds. Now he must find a way to save the family, film crew, and himself before it's too late.
20) The rite
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, this supernatural thriller follows a seminary student sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his own doubts about the controversial practice and even his own faith. Only when sent to apprentice with legendary Father Lucas, who has performed thousand of exorcisms, does his armor of skepticism begin to fall. Drawn into a troubling case that transcends even Father Lucas's skill, the young seminarian glimpses a phenomenon...