Title: My Best Friend's Exorcism Pdf A Novel
Author: Grady Hendrix
Published Date: 2017-07-11
Page: 336
“National treasure Grady Hendrix follows his classic account of a haunted IKEA-like furniture showroom, Horrorstor (2014), with a nostalgia-soaked ghost story, My Best Friend’s Exorcism.”—The Wall Street Journal“Take The Exorcist, add some hair spray and wine coolers, and enroll it in high school in 1988 — that’ll give you My Best Friend’s Exorcism...Campy. Heartfelt. Horrifying.”—Minnesota Public Radio “Clever, heartfelt, and get-under-your-skin unnerving.”—Fangoria “A touching story of high school friendship and, well, demonic possession.”—Bloody Disgusting “Terrific...Sharply written...[My Best Friend’s Exorcism] makes a convincing case for [Hendrix’s] powers as a sharp observer of human behavior, filtered through a fun genre conceit that doesn’t skimp on the spooky—or the bodily fluids.”—The A.V. Club “Think Mean Girls with demonic possession, set in 1988 Charleston. It’s funny, it’s heart-wrenching, it’s even a little spiritual, in a very strange way.”—Southern Living magazine “This book packs all the magic of a summer horror flick.”—Bustle“The rare exorcism book that will make you cry, My Best Friend’s Exorcism is both a truly scary tale and a loving tribute to high school friendship.”—Hypable “If you’re looking for a good summer book, something for the beach or the back porch that won’t insult your intelligence, one that’s tense and sometimes scary and sometimes funny, with characters you may even come to like and admire as they come of age, keep My Best Friend’s Exorcism in mind.”—SFFWorld“[Hendrix proves his] own black-magic mettle by conjuring up an era where ill-informed paranoia (and just plain ding-dongness) turned some of the quietest corners of America into fear factories...Too bad Satan never actually did show up back then. He woulda loved it.”—Wired.com “A book every horror fan should know.”—Dread Central“Satirical, intense and surprisingly heartwarming, My Best Friend’s Exorcism is, like, totally the perfect summer reading choice—if you don’t mind some gore.”—Sunday Gazette-Mail “Smart, sassy and satanic.”—Rue Morgue“Hendrix is one of the finest new genre voices we have in literature.”—Film School Rejects“If you see me in the wild and I'm reading a book that was written by Grady Hendrix, interrupt me at your own peril.”—Sarah Gailey, Hugo-Award winning author of Magic for Liars“Hendrix's fusion of teen angst, '80s pop culture, and the power of true friendship is a treat.”—Kirkus Praise for We Sold Our Souls:An NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour PickAn io9 2018 Fall Preview Pick“Kickass, horrifying, and smart as hell. It certainly earns my two horns up.”—Dread Central“Wild and fun, genuinely terrifying in places, and also somehow heartfelt.”—Tor.com“A fast-paced ride, firmly rooted in the pulp horror tradition…Hendrix’s darkest novel yet will leave readers begging for an encore.”—Booklist, starred review Praise for Paperbacks from Hell: “Pure, demented delight.”—The New York Times Book Review“Paperbacks from Hell is as funny as it is engaging.”—The Washington Post“The book is a true appreciation of the genre.”—Los Angeles Times“Paperbacks from Hell is as wild as its source material.”—The A.V. Club“Just thumbing through these pages will bring back your youth— and terrify you all over again.”—NewsdayPraise for Horrorstor:“Horrorstör delivers a crisp terror-tale...[and] Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror.”—The Washington Post“Disarming.”—The Wall Street Journal“Hendrix conjures up some wonderfully gruesome imagery.”—Nerdist“An inventive, hilarious haunted house tale.”—Bustle “If you’ve ever been frustrated trying to put together furniture from IKEA, you’ll get a laugh out of Hendrix’s spoof mystery.”—New York Post Grady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His novels include Horrorstör, named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio, and My Best Friend’s Exorcism, for which the Wall Street Journal dubbed him “a national treasure.” The Bram Stoker Award-winning Paperbacks from Hell, his survey of outrageous horror novels of the 1970s and 80s, was called “pure, demented delight” by the New York Times Book Review. He’s contributed to Playboy, The Village Voice, and Variety.
The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping 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 Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
A Very Good Novel--With a Fantastic Cover! I'll be honest, I bought this book solely because of the cover! Seriously, this is the single greatest cover in the history of paperbacks! It reminds me of walking through those quirky old independent video stores back in the '80s and '90s and discovering some crappy, wonderful hidden VHS gem.The cover is appropriate because the novel takes place in the 1980s. While it does deal with satanic possession, it's really about the normal ups-and-downs of teenage friendship. While I'm a middle-aged man, I felt a great connection with and sympathy for these two teenage, female protagonists. There are a few stock characters, but they seem reminiscent of the stock characters you find in '80s horror movies (the arrogant rich girl, the brainy girl, the jock with only one thing on his mind, etc.). Indeed, these characters only highlight the two girls at the center of the story.While this story is mostly dramatic horror, there are a few moments of real, shudder-inducing horror. I highly recommend "My Best Friend's Exorcism."True friends can survive anything. Even an exorcism. I wasn't sure what I was getting into with MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM. Nostalgia? Horror? Comedy? A little bit of all of those things would be the fair summary. The first chunk of the book details how our main character Abby becomes friends with Gretchen, and their personal history is peppered with a number of pop culture references that instantly make the characters relatable to anyone over thirty years old. For younger readers, some of these references may be alienating, like how the girls dressed up like Madonna and sang "Like a Virgin" in the mirror (though honestly, teen girls have done this for decades now--if not Madonna, then Britney Spears or Selena Gomez to younger readers--and that Hendrix taps into shows an awareness of how pop culture obsession becomes a rite of passage). These references certainly place the book in its time and place when there was a growing public fright of devil worship and eighties' debauchery. The possession affecting Gretchen starts in subtle ways that become more obvious as the book goes on, but through it all, where the reader is able to plow forward through all the challenges is through Abby's care for Gretchen. You want not only for the girls to live but for their friendship to continue as well. It's a fast-paced read that is one part John Hughes and one part Robert Bloch. My only quibble is that Hendrix's writing, while enjoyable and interesting, feels like the story's being told from a distance where the reader learns everything about the characters as if someone else is telling them, almost a clinical kind of narration. It makes it a bit hard to fully immerse in the story, but it is still a great read.Recommended for: young adult and older readers, people who grew up during the 1980s, horror-comedy fans, fans of unusual friendship stories
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