#book of exorcisms

[flo-n-flon]

"While it's fresh. I need everyone to tell me what they saw and heard, so that I can write it down. There will never be a better time."

Of all the accounts Loial gathered in Thakan'dar that day, the Aes Sedai's proved the most difficult to acquire. Those who remained were elusive, bustling around the Healing tents and churned fields. Nynaeve Sedai and her helpers, paying no heed to the fragility of Humans, were bringing back from the brink of death so many that a constant flow of barely healed soldiers and channelers shuffled toward the Travelling grounds, freeing much-needed beds inside the tents.

Moiraine Sedai would not answer his inquiries about the events at Shayol Ghul either, intent as she was on the care of a drawn, but gently chiding Tairen woman.

[eaion]

Tian Bao Fuyao Lu - 天宝伏妖录 (Legend of Exorcism)

[brokehorrorfan]

Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend’s Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires) will publish Witchcraft for Wayward Girls on January 14 via Berkley.

The 432-page horror novel is described as "Rosemary’s Baby set in a home for unwed mothers in 1970." It will be available in hardcover, large print paperback, e-book, and audio book.

Set in Florida in 1970, Grady Hendrix’s newest novel follows a group of young women in a home for unwed mothers who find a guide to witchcraft.

Pre-order Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix.

[andhumanslovedstories]

Okay so I immediately want to disclaim that I DID say an incorrect fact at the end of the episode: the Catholic Church actually updated their guidelines for exorcisms in 1999. And now to say what the episode is about: this week we discussed My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, a book I put off reading for so long that it became a running joke in our household. And y’all we are so qualified to talk about this book. We are Grady Hendrix fans. We are best friends. And at least fifty percent of us have a psychological fixation on the concepts of exorcisms.

Anyway, the book? Turns out? It's good. We talk about it this episode, along with like a LOT of discussion of exorcisms. The conversation is not carried equally between the two hosts, I’ll admit that. Cyrus in this episode is doing the equivalent of meditating underneath a waterfall (the waterfall is made of facts about exorcisms). Other discussion points include: girl best friends, the inherent horror of no one believing you, and how goddamn hard it is to read a book at the hospital.

My Best Friend’s Exorcism

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[makiitoh]

Hi my name is Hoid/Dust/Cephandrius/Lunu'anaki and so on and I’m a Worldhopper (that’s how I got so many names) and I have a hideous silvery-white mullet and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of authors tell me I look like a hawk (AN: ok fine just one author and if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I’m a Mistborn, an Awakener, a Surgebinder, and an Elantrian. I also once held a Dawnshard (I’m old). I tragically lost my fashion sense in a recent curse-related incident (in case you couldn’t tell) and I’d been wearing the strangest outfits you could even possibly imagine. I loved thrifting and bartering and I got all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a floral buttoned shirt, shorts that were way too short, and sandals. With socks. I was walking around the Sorceress’s phallic silver tower. I had just become an Elantrian and gained the ability to draw Aons, which I was very happy about. The Sorceress stared at me. I put up my middle finger at her. “Hello Riina,” I said. “I hope your last few years have been exactly as lovely as you are.”

[whatsuptyler]

my debut horror novel about gay people and possession horror is out October 1, 2024!

The unofficial description: a priest who is totally 100% not gay at all (he is gay) realizes his "dear friend" who he absolutely does not have a crush on (he has a crush) who happens to be a DILF is probably possessed. meditations on love and faith and grief follow.

The official description:

A psychic priest is thrown headfirst into a battle of faith and love against the forces of Hell when his dearest friend becomes possessed. Father Isaias Flores may not have much, but he has his faith—and his dear friend Hector to keep him anchored when he is mired in self-doubt. But when Hector’s daughter, Violet, comes to Isaias with concerns that her father is acting strangely, Isaias’s doubts only increase, now with no one to keep him steadfast. For Hector seems to be possessed by something darker than even the traumas of the past, and Violet has nowhere else to turn to save her only family. This is a problem that may require divine intervention—the rites of exorcism. Unsure of his place in the church, doubting his gifts from God, and struggling to make sense of his feelings for the man he had thought was only a friend, Isaias isn’t sure if he is strong enough to save anyone’s soul from damnation. For what can one man do against the torments of Hell?

It's going to be Zon exclusive for at least a bit (for KU reasons) but if you're interested, the ebook can be pre-ordered here or added to goodreads here. ARC sign ups are also available for the next few weeks!

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[coquelicoq]

actually natori has some kind of tracking talisman on matoba at all times. that's how he knew where to abduct matoba from for Operation: Kitty Cat City. matoba fully knows about it; it's why he wasn't at all surprised to find a paper doll in natsume's hair after the mask youkai debacle (matoba internally as he watched it fly away: classic mother hen shuuichi-san momence 🥰). because this is matoba "boundaries? what are those? can you eat them?" seiji we're talking about, he's not bothered by this "violation" of his "privacy"; rather, he finds it fittingly clingy (it is, after all, only right that natori should be keeping tabs on him obsessively). sometimes the talisman gets confused and sticks to yesterday's outfit, so he always checks to make sure he has it on the way out the door (his pocket patdown is "keys, lighter, wallet, exorcism supplies, shuuichi-san's cute lil tracker he thinks i don't know about <3"). i wouldn't be surprised if he's figured out how to uno reverse it and now uses it to track natori's location as well. this may not technically be canon but it is probably all 100% true in an important way that transcends canon, we just never hear about it because it isn't relevant to natsume's journey 😌

[b-oredzoi]

Books I Read in 2024: My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

“Corn dogs," the exorcist said, "are all the proof I need that there is a God.

[mariyekos]

Some day I want to make a write up about the different magic circles we see across DMC, including both the ones for Air Hike and the one that appears in on the floor of Dante's shop in the intro to DMC1. Sure we see him use Devil Arms and stuff in combat, but I think it'd be fun to explore all the other stuff he's learned over the years like wards and sigils and so on.

[tapesandelectronicsclub]

I had a nightmare where I got a demonic possession in the streets. I came back home.

Pen, Pencil, Match, Pin, and Book from BFDI came to my bedroom by exorcizing me.

This type of nightmare is that Exorcist kids like me commonly have.

Kids who watched The Exorcist in the 1980s are not the same generation as the FNAF franchise.

[retroreverbs]

Binding the Devil by Roger Baker (1974)

[scre6m]

took over 6 months to finish a book then finished a new one in 2 days

[proceduralbob]

One day Father Candido was expelling a demon. Toward the end of the exorcism, he turned to the evil spirit and sarcastically told him, “Get out of here. The Lord has already prepared a nice, well-heated house for you!” At this, the demon answered, “You do not know anything! It wasn’t he [God] who made hell. It was us. He had not even thought about it.” Similarly, on another occasion, while I was questioning a demon to know whether he had contributed to the creation of hell, I received this answer: “All of us cooperated.”

An Exorcist Tells His Story, Father Gabriele Amorth

[horror-dykes-blog]

List of Books I Read While Working Nights At an Acute Mental Health Hospital That Weirded Out My Coworkers When I Explained the Plot

Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson- lesbians and cannibalism

The Entire Locked Tomb Series by Tamsy Muir: lesbian necromancers in space with no reliable narrators

Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix- not really weird but explaining the meta final girls plot was hard and I fumbled it I think

Starling House by Alex E. Harrow: it's family trauma and cycles The Book

Blackwater by Michael McDowell: Evil Mermaid Except You're Definitely Rooting For Her

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix: it's what it sounds like except even cooler imo

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (I was on a kick, okay?): what it sounds like except they should have been lesbianing it up at the end and they weren't and that was disappointing but the rest of the book 10/10

Swamplandia! by Karen Russel: wow these siblings tore my heart out i love them but also WOOF look at a TW/CW list before you read it

The Whitehall Manor Books by L.V. Pires: First book, LOVED. Cursed family? LOVED. The other two books? Eh. Honestly, don't bother

[poisonandpages]

"You keep rescuing me and I don’t know why,” Gretchen said. “But every day I tell myself my life must be worth something because you keep saving it. They can’t keep us apart. I don’t care what happens. You never stopped trying to save me."

Books Read or Re-read in 2023;

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix