| Description |
xv, 140 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Two Sides of Midnight -- Black Fire -- He Ate His Children All But Three -- Blood of the Celibate -- Cross of Pain -- The Priest's Wife Has a Broken Back -- Adjuratio Solemnis -- Enter Diabolus -- Hell is Murky -- Seek to Know No More -- Slander's Whisper -- The Tearing of the Tongue -- He Who Knocks -- The Bomb Under the Bed -- The Hand of God -- a Footnote. |
| Summary |
Teenager Susan Garth was "a clean-talking sweet little girl" of high school age before she started having "fits"-a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. Then one night, she strips in front of the parish priest and sinks her nails into his throat. If not madness, then the answer must be demonic possession. To vanquish the Devil, Bishop Crimmings recruits Father Gregory Sargent, a younger priest with a taste for modern ideas and brandy. As the two men fight not just the darkness tormenting Susan but also one another, a soul-chilling revelation lurks in the shadows-one that knows that the darkest evil goes by many names. |
| Subject |
Exorcism -- Fiction.
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Demoniac possession -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Horror fiction.
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Occult fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780143107279 (paperback) |
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0143107275 (paperback) |
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