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A classic tale of the war of good versus evil that inspired one of the most sucessful horror movies of all time. When a powerful presence possesses a 12-year-old girl, it triggers a battle between a doubt-ridden priest and the unspeakable horror within the girl.
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"A librarian with a knack for solving murders soon realizes there is something supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery. Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies - and solving murders. But she's concerned by just how many killers she's had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count...but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths...
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Quirk Books
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English
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1988. Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinnydipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act--different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries--and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and...
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Twin star exorcists volume 32
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Rokuro is a reluctant exorcist, but when a rival, Benio, arrives and Rokuro's best friend, Ryogo, goes missing, Rokuro need's Benio's help to enter the realm of Magano and rescue Ryogo from the evil Kegare.
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Carrion City duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she'll work the most gruesome gigs, exorcize the nastiest demons, and make deals with the cruelest gods to claw her way to the top. But nothing can prepare her for the toughest job yet: when her best friend, Sarah, shows up at her door in need of help. Keeping Sarah safe becomes top priority....
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Series
Felix Castor series volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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His long-unused services as a freelance exorcist brought back into demand by a sudden increase in supernatural activity, Felix Castor reluctantly accepts a final job, but finds the ghost in question linked to dangerous and unexpected consequences.
8) El exorcista
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Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Si la medicina y la psiquiatría no ayudan, ¿puede el exorcismo ser la respuesta? Ha llegado el momento para el implacable rito que enfrenta a exorcista y demonio en duelo mortal. El exorcista es una de las obras de ficción más sobrecogedoras y terroríficas jamás escritas. Basada en un hecho real, ocurrido en la década de los cuarenta del siglo pasado, la protagonista es una niña de apenas once años que sufre terribles transformaciones,...
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"The unnamed and morally questionable narrator is an exorcist with great follow-through and few doubts. His methods aren't delicate but they're undeniably effective: he'll get the demon out--he just doesn't particularly care what happens to the person. Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world's first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he's demonically possessed"--Page [4] of cover.
10) Inside man
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Publisher
Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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K.J. Parker returns to the amoral world of Prosper's Demon with a wry, sardonic novella that flips the eternal, rule-governed battle between men and demons on its head. An anonymous representative of the Devil, once a high-ranking Duke of Hell and now a committed underachiever, has spent the last forever of an eternity leading a perfectly tedious existence distracting monks from their liturgical devotions. It's interminable, but he prefers it that...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Una oscura historia se agita en Chapel Croft. A una larga lista de desapariciones y muertes se une la del sacerdote de la parroquia local, que se ahorcó en su propia iglesia hace solo unas semanas. Para sustituirlo, llega al pueblo Jack Brooks. Trae consigo una hija de catorce años y una conciencia atormentada, aunque confía en empezar aquí una nueva vida. Pero lo que encuentra es un lugar lleno de conspiraciones y secretos donde le espera un...
14) The merciless
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Series
The merciless volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In an effort to make friends at her new school, Sofia gets involved with a group of popular girls who dislike Brooklyn, a loner who they believe to be evil.
15) Shutter
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Micheline Helsing is a tetrachcromat, able to see ghosts in color and capture them on film, but when a routine hunt goes awry, Micheline's infected with a curse known as a soulchain and if she's unable to exorcise the entity in seven days, she'll be destroyed, body and soul.
Author
Series
Twin star exorcists volume 1
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Benio learns both the reason for Rokuro's behavior at Hinatsuki Dorm and a secret about her brother, while Rokuro is faced with a terrible decision when a friend is possessed with the curse of the Kegare.
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Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth--the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself. When Shiemi confronts her old nemesis Amaimon, the demon king of earth doesn't understand just how...
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English
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"An unconventional vicar moves to a remote corner of the English countryside, only to discover a community haunted by death and disappearances both past and present--and intent on keeping its dark secrets--in this explosive, unsettling thriller from acclaimed author C. J. Tudor. Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And...
19) Diabhal
Author
Series
Diabhal novels volume 1
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Diabhal (Devil) is the story of cults, exorcisms and the devil in 1980's era Los Angeles. Ceit Robertson, age ten, is the next Matrarc to the Society, a cultish, matriarchal group living in an inconspicuous cul-de-sac in Venice Beach. When Ceit's mother is attacked by spirits from the old world, a failed exorcism results in Ceit's exile into the foster care system in Los Angeles. She eventually lands in the infamous MacLaren Hall, a very real and...
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Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Soul of the Great Yang is destined to awaken in Rokuro...but first it wants to kill him! Will Rokuro make it to the altar on time let alone alive to marry Benio? And can he trust an offer of help from a most unlikely, impossible ally?"-- cover page 4.
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