Film-
Jaws
The Exorcist
Night of the Living Dead
Last House on the Left
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Paranormal Activity
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
The Rite
The Thing
The Possession
The Last Exorcism
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Devil Inside Me
The Conjuring
Constantine
The Rite
REC2
The Amityville Horror
Exorcismo
Session 9
Quatermass And The Pit
The Legend of Hill House
Burnt Offerings
Take Shelter
The Shining
The Ring
The Fly
The Blair Witch Project
The Haunting
Fiction-
The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Mother Of Stone by John Langan
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
The Legend of Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Diving Poll by Yoko Ogawa
The Speed Queen O’Nan Marjorie
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Summer People by Shirley Jackson
The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones
In The Mean Time by Paul Tremblay
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Tenant by Roland Topor
The Stand by Stephen King
Dark Tide by Stephen Puelo
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
Ring by Koji Suzuki
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Standalone authors-
Richard Gavin
Simon Strantzas
Ian Rogers (Every House is Haunted)
JK Rowling
George RR Martin
JRR Tolkien
Non-fiction-
The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film
American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty
God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Pigs in the Parlour: The Practical Guide to Deliverance
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
A full list of all the works (books and films) mentioned in the novel A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay.
Each work received a review and blog post as part of my Blog Full of Ghosts challenge. There were so many amazing references and excellent suggested works in this novel that I couldn’t keep all my thoughts just to myself! So, give my posts a read and see if there’s anything you might want to check out.
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