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[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a_head_full_of_ghosts.jpg]] '' A Head Full of Ghosts'' is a 2015 novel by Creator/PaulTremblay. A blend of Gothic horror and family drama, Tremblay's book won the 2016 UsefulNotes/BramStokerAward for Superior Achievement in a Novel.
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[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a_head_full_of_ghosts.jpg]] '' A Head Full of Ghosts'' is a 2015 novel by Creator/PaulTremblay. A blend of Gothic horror and family drama, Tremblay's book won the 2016 UsefulNotes/BramStokerAward MediaNotes/BramStokerAward for Superior Achievement in a Novel.
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** Marjorie [[spoiler: tricking her sister into poisoning the pasta sauce, telling her that it will just knock them out]] and then mockingly telling her how delicious it is at the dinner table. [[spoiler: It's unclear how much of that was a hallucination, however.]]
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** Marjorie [[spoiler: tricking her sister into poisoning the pasta sauce, telling her that it will just knock them out]] and then mockingly telling her how delicious it is at the dinner table. [[spoiler: It's unclear how much of that was a hallucination, the truth, however.]]
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* RagsToRiches: Once the show starts airing, the family's financial situation noticeably improves. They go from having to ration heir food and eat very little to being able to bulk buy groceries and eat big meals again.
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* RagsToRiches: Once the show starts airing, the family's financial situation noticeably improves. They go from having to ration heir food and eat very little to being able to bulk buy groceries and eat big meals again.
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** Marjorie walking into the living room and masturbating in front of her family.[note]]The act is not described in detail but it's made clear what she's doing. The scene is also not written in an arousing way at all, but is framed as confusing and upsetting. It is implied that the TV show adaptation of the exorcism does frame it this way to an extent.[[/note]]
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** Marjorie walking into the living room and masturbating in front of her family.[note]]The [[note]]The act is not described in detail but it's made clear what she's doing. The scene is also not written in an arousing way at all, but is framed as confusing and upsetting. It is implied that the TV show adaptation of the exorcism does frame it this way to an extent.[[/note]]
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** At one point Marjorie tells Merry that she faked everything so that her family could get out of their financial rut by selling their story, but the scene is framed so that it's unclear if Marjorie herself even believes what she's saying.
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* KidsAreCruel: Once the show starts airing Marjorie and Merry start getting made fun of.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Par for the course given that this is a possession horror story. Some highlights include:
** Marjorie walking into the living room and masturbating in front of her family.[note]]The act is not described in detail but it's made clear what she's doing. The scene is also not written in an arousing way at all, but is framed as confusing and upsetting. It is implied that the TV show adaptation of the exorcism does frame it this way to an extent.[[/note]]
** Marjorie punching holes in her wall and crab walking around on it.
** Marjorie [[spoiler: tricking her sister into poisoning the pasta sauce, telling her that it will just knock them out]] and then mockingly telling her how delicious it is at the dinner table. [[spoiler: It's unclear how much of that was a hallucination, however.]]
** Marjorie walking into the living room and masturbating in front of her family.[note]]The act is not described in detail but it's made clear what she's doing. The scene is also not written in an arousing way at all, but is framed as confusing and upsetting. It is implied that the TV show adaptation of the exorcism does frame it this way to an extent.[[/note]]
** Marjorie punching holes in her wall and crab walking around on it.
** Marjorie [[spoiler: tricking her sister into poisoning the pasta sauce, telling her that it will just knock them out]] and then mockingly telling her how delicious it is at the dinner table. [[spoiler: It's unclear how much of that was a hallucination, however.]]
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The book's perspective regularly flips between the childhoods of sisters Merry and Marjorie in the early 2010s, and a the mid 2020s, in which horror vlogger Karen and journalist Rachel Neville discuss Merry and Marjorie. Marjorie is famous because she was supposedly possessed and a cult classic reality TV show was produced surrounding her exorcism. The two adult women wind up uncovering many things not yet known to the public, and try to uncover if Marjorie truly was possessed or of she just had an untreated mental illness.
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* NextSundayAD : Merry's narration takes place fifteen years after the events of the reality show. Young Merry is obsessed with the show Finding Bigfoot, which first aired in 2011.
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* NextSundayAD : Merry's narration takes place fifteen years after the events of the reality show. Young Merry is obsessed with the show Finding Bigfoot, which first aired in 2011.2011, which puts the present day in 2026 at the earliest.
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* NextSundayAD : Merry's narration takes place fifteen years after the events of the reality show, but it's not clear exactly what year either takes place.
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* NextSundayAD : Merry's narration takes place fifteen years after the events of the reality show, but it's not clear exactly what year either takes place. show. Young Merry is obsessed with the show Finding Bigfoot, which first aired in 2011.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms : A particularly Squicky version.
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** Who is possessed? [[spoiler:Marjorie? Merry? John? Neither? Marjorie claims that all of them ''except'' Merry were possessed at various points in the book, but it's at least heavily implied that Marjorie at least ''thought'' Merry was possessed.]]
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** Who is possessed? [[spoiler:Marjorie? Merry? John? Neither? None of them? Marjorie claims that all of them ''except'' Merry were possessed at various points in the book, but it's at least heavily implied that Marjorie at least ''thought'' Merry was possessed.]]
*** Related to this, was John ever intending to [[spoiler:kill them]], or was that just a RedHerring?
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* BreakTheCutie : Both Marjorie and Merry, but more so Marjorie.
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* BreakTheCutie : BreakTheCutie: Both Marjorie and Merry, but more so Marjorie.
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** Crosses. John is mentioned cleaning a cross obsessively over and over after the reality show. While he's
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** Crosses. John is mentioned cleaning a cross obsessively over and over after the reality show. While [[spoiler:Marjorie argues that he's going to use the cleaning fluid to massacre them. Merry only later finds out that it might have been because he was just cleaning them.]]
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* EpistolaryNovel : Played with. The structure of the book is in the form of various points of view, including Merry's first person narration about the events fifteen years in the past, the stories the girls like to make up, and blogs devoted to the reality show.
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* EpistolaryNovel : EpistolaryNovel: Played with. The structure of the book is in the form of various points of view, including Merry's first person narration about the events fifteen years in the past, the stories the girls like to make up, and blogs devoted to the reality show.
* HollywoodExorcism: Marjorie's. "Karen", [[spoiler:aka older Merry]], heavily discusses it and points out all the ways that it qualifies.
* HollywoodSatanism: In-universe discussed as the blame for Marjorie's mental health "issues", and one of the main reasons that Merry thinks it was a delusion.
* HollywoodSatanism: In-universe discussed as the blame for Marjorie's mental health "issues", and one of the main reasons that Merry thinks it was a delusion.
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* MostWritersAreWriters : Both the writer working on the book and the adult Merry.
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* MostWritersAreWriters : Both Rachel, the writer working on the book book, and the adult Merry. Merry.
* MundaneSolution: Posited as possibilities, but not answered.
** Karen theorizes that this is how Marjorie was able to break her bonds during the exorcism. [[spoiler:She didn't. Sarah loosened them because she was scared by the violence of the exorcism and angry at John's fanaticism.]]
** There never was a [[spoiler:demon. It took place ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, and the family's mental health suffered.]]
* MundaneSolution: Posited as possibilities, but not answered.
** Karen theorizes that this is how Marjorie was able to break her bonds during the exorcism. [[spoiler:She didn't. Sarah loosened them because she was scared by the violence of the exorcism and angry at John's fanaticism.]]
** There never was a [[spoiler:demon. It took place ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, and the family's mental health suffered.]]
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* RedShirt : The "young exorcist" might as well be wearing one.
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* WallCrawl: In an {{Homage}} to Film/TheExorcist, Marjorie walls-crawls while on her period in front of her family.
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* WallCrawl: In an {{Homage}} to Film/TheExorcist, ''Film/TheExorcist'', Marjorie walls-crawls while on her period in front of her family.
