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Demon Theory
Demon Theory
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother on Halloween night, Hale and six of his med school classmates return to the house where his sister disappeared years ago only to find a chilling surprise in store for them. Written as a literary film treatment and littered with pop culture references and footnotes, Demon Theory is a re...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781596922167
ISBN-10: 1596922168
Publication Date: 4/13/2007
Pages: 442
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Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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On Halloween night, following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother, Hale and five of his med-school classmates reutrn to the house where his sister disappeared years ago. While there's no sign of his mother, something is waiting for them there, something that's been waiting a long time. Written as a literary film treatment, Demon Theory is equal parts camp and terror, combining glib dialogue, fascinating pop culture references, and an intricate subtext as it pursues the events of a haunting movie TRILOGY that turns out to be all to real.


After reading Jones's "All the Beautiful Sinners" I was compelled to try another. This one is different, in a haunting sort of way. I put it down three times before I finished it, but was glad I did when I finally did finish it. Remember, it is written as a film treatment (so you get the perspective and set up of a script) and it is the 'vision' of three of the characters. If I had to label it anything, I would call it a "metaphysical mystery story for the pop culture genre enthusiasts"


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