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The Grim Readers

Book Club

The Grim Readers is a book club that meets on the first Tuesday of every month for an hour to discuss a horror book. This month's pick, A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay.

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie displays signs of acute schizophrenia.

To her parents' despair, the doctors cannot stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight. With John, Marjorie's father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show, and the shocking incidents it captures, become the stuff of urban legend.

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