A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel

For attendees of the Ashland Horror Mini-Fest on February 25, please choose in-store pickup and we'll be happy to bring your books to the festival.  A chilling domestic drama that blends psychological suspense with a touch of modern horror from a new, brilliantly imaginative master“Paul Tremblay is an astonishingly talented writer, and A Head Full of Ghosts is mind-bending—scary, sad, sweet, funny, sick. Recommended for lovers of Shirley Jackson, Roald Dahl, Richard Matheson, The Exorcist, and of course all found-footage films.”  —Stewart O’Nan, author of The Speed Queen, The Night Country, and A Prayer for the Dying The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s bizarre outbursts and subsequent descent into madness. As their home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic pri