A head full of ghosts

In this Bram Stoker Award-winning tale, author Paul Tremblay (whose follow-up, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, is absolutely chilling if a bit baffling at the very end) manages to both examine the possession subgenre and break new ground with its tired tropes. Fourteen-year-old Marjorie Barrett starts displaying signs of schizophrenia, or maybe it's just teenage rebellion…or maybe it's something more. Before long, Marjorie's out-of-work father agrees to let a reality-TV crew film an attempt to exorcise his daughter's demons. Cutting between the events of the show and an interview with Marjorie's younger sister, filmed 15 years after the show's conclusion, Tremblay walks a razor-thin edge between confirming and denying which forces are actually at play within Marjorie's head, keeping readers guessing well after the final page is turned.