![]() ![]() Paul Tremblay: Thank you for the kind words and, yes, I’m glad I freaked you out. Can you talk about how this book came about? Did you decide to write something in the exorcism genre (is that a thing?), and then develop a story, or did the story idea come to you first? But as someone unfamiliar with the genre, I appreciate the novel’s accessibility. Heather Scott Partington: This book certainly freaked me out. I spoke with Paul Tremblay recently about the ghosts in his head, horror in the literary world, and his new connection to Iron Man. A Head Full of Ghosts is written from the perspective of the Barrett’s younger daughter, Merry, fifteen years after The Possession airs. ![]() The previously stable family has fallen on hard times, and when the offer of an exorcism comes just prior to an offer from a production company to film the whole thing, the Barretts hastily accept both. ![]() When Marjorie Barrett begins to show signs of madness, and medical treatment doesn’t offer any answers, her parents turn to their Catholic priest, Father Wanderly. Tremblay’s work shows us how irresistible the darker corners of imagination can be, too. “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality,” Shirley Jackson wrote, “even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” In his unsettling new novel, A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay combines demon possession with reality TV, toying with ideas of perception, belief, and hard truth. ![]()
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