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Thinner Summary

Stephen King, Richard Bachman, American, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Supernatural, Thriller

Thinner

Published: 19, November 1984
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Media Tie-In, Supernatural, Thriller

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Summary

While driving across town with his wife Heidi giving him a massage, Billy Halleck, a wealthy, arrogant, and morbidly obese lawyer, is distracted and runs over and murders an old Romani woman. 

Billy exploits his contacts in the local police and criminal court to evade punishment and get himself acquitted. 

Outside the courts, the woman's father, Taduz Lemke, exacts vengeance by casting a curse on Billy, using the term "thinner," and Billy begins to lose weight fast, regardless of how much he eats. 

Billy contacts a number of specialists, all of whom fear cancer, but they are unable to pinpoint the source of his weight loss.

Billy later finds that the judge who ruled over his case has developed scales on his skin and that the police officer who lied on Billy's behalf has developed terrible acne. Both guys finally kill themselves. 

Billy, now malnourished, traces the Romani band north through the New England seacoast to Maine with the aid of private investigators and Richie "The Hammer" Ginelli, a former customer with links to organized crime. 

At their camp, he meets Lemke and attempts to persuade him to withdraw the curse, but Lemke refuses, insisting that Billy be brought to justice.

Billy is thrown out of the Romani camp, but not before Gina, Lemke's great-granddaughter, shoots him in the hand with a ball bearing. 

Richie responds by dispatching a mob doctor to cure Billy's hand before arriving in person to scare the Romani camp. 

Lemke agrees to meet with Billy when Richie finishes with the locals. Lemke takes a strawberry pie with him, which he tops with blood from Billy's injured hand. 

Unless Billy passes the curse on to someone else by persuading them to eat the pie, the weight loss will cease for a brief period and then restart. Billy is advised by Lemke to eat the pie himself so that he can die with dignity.

Billy goes home after discovering Richie's severed hand in his car and learning that he has been murdered, intending to offer the pie to Heidi, whom he has blamed for his situation. 

However, the next morning, he discovers that she and their daughter Linda had devoured the pie. He slices a piece for himself, realizing that they are both doomed so that he might join them in death.


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Rosemary's Baby Summary

Rosemary's Baby

Published: 12, March 1967

Author: Ira Levin

Genres: American, Classics, Demonology & Satanism, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Occult, Suspense, Thrillers


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Summary:

Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman with a failing actor husband, has recently moved into the Bramford, a historic Gothic Revival-style New York City apartment building. Guy has only had minor roles in theatrical productions such as Luther and Nobody Loves an Albatross, as well as a few TV advertisements. The couple is informed that Bramford has a shady past of witchcraft and murder, but they dismiss this. Guy wants to wait until his job is more established before starting a family, whereas Rosemary wants to start one right now.

Neighbors Rosemary and Guy are welcomed to the Bramford by Minnie and Roman Castevet, an eccentric old couple. Rosemary considers them intrusive and irritating, but Guy continues to pay them frequent visits.

Guy gets cast in the lead part in a new theatrical play when the lead actor falls blind. Guy surprisingly agrees with Rosemary that they should have their first child shortly after. Rosemary has a dream that night about a tumultuous sexual experience with a gigantic, monstrous beast with yellow eyes. Rosemary discovers claw marks on her breasts and crotch the next morning, which Guy dismisses as a hangnail. Rosemary is later informed that she is expecting a child.

Rosemary becomes very ill, but her excruciating pain and rapid weight loss are dismissed by others as hysteria. Minnie and her doctor feed her weird and nasty concoctions. Rosemary gets a strange desire for raw flesh as well.

Guy's performance in the play receives positive feedback and he goes on to play more important roles. Guy quickly starts talking about a Hollywood career.

Edward "Hutch" Hutchins, Rosemary's buddy, also gets ill inexplicably. Roman Castevets, the leader of a Satanic coven, had given Rosemary a warning, which led to her discovery. She believes her unborn child is being sought as a devilish sacrifice. Despite her growing conviction, she can't persuade anyone, especially Guy. Rosemary eventually finds the coven's true motivation for desiring her baby. He is the Antichrist, and his father is Satan.


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Legion Summary

Legion

Published: 1983

Author: William Peter Blatty

Book 2 of 2: The Exorcist Series

Genres: American, Classics, Fiction, Horror, Movie Tie-In, Mysteries, Occult, Police Procedural, Psychological, Supernatural


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Summary:

The narrative starts with the discovery of a twelve-year-old kid who has been killed and crucified on two rowing oars. Kinderman notices that the kid has been mangled in a manner similar to that of the victims of the Gemini Murderer, a serial killer who was shot to death by police while climbing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco twelve years ago. Later, a priest is assassinated in a confessional, his body displaying the mutilations of the ostensibly dead killer once more. However, the fingerprints found at the two crime locations are not identical.

More victims soon follow, including one of Kinderman's pals, Father Dyer (from The Exorcist), who is murdered at a hospital and beheaded. The mutilations of the Gemini Killer are once again visible.

Kinderman was led to the hospital's mental section, where his buddy was murdered. He discovers a lot of suspects here.

Dr. Freeman Temple is a psychiatrist who treats his patients with dismissive and even contempt.

Another doctor at the hospital is Dr. Vincent Amfortas. He is enigmatic and uncommunicative, and he appears apathetic toward everything since his wife's death.

The hospital has a lot of elderly patients who are suffering from senile dementia. Although the fingerprints of many senile patients have been recovered at crime scenes, interviews with the patients reveal that they are unable to carry out the intricate killings and mutilations.

Tommy Sunlight - a strange patient discovered walking aimlessly disguised as a priest eleven years ago, who boasts of being the Gemini Killer reborn and claims to have carried out the recent killings while being confined to a locked cell in a straitjacket. He alleges that the doctors and nurses allowed him out to murder on one occasion. He also has a striking resemblance to Damien Karras, a priest who is said to have been killed in The Exorcist by falling down a flight of stairs.

The genuine Gemini Killer, James Vennamun, whose body was never recovered, implying that he may have lived and resumed his atrocities.

Sunlight informs Kinderman towards the conclusion of the story that the demon from the previous novel (The Exorcist) helped him in possessing Damien Karras' body soon after Karras' death as a form of vengeance for having been pushed out of the small girl. Sunlight spent years attempting to regain control of his injured body, during which time Karras was sent to a psychiatric institution. He had no identity and was given the moniker Sunlight because he sat in the sun's rays as they streamed through his cell window.

After eventually taking possession of Karras' body, the Gemini would periodically leave it to inhabit the bodies of senile dementia patients, which he could use to execute murders because they were in an open ward with access to the outside world. As a result, the fingerprints of numerous senile patients were discovered at crime scenes; their bodies committed the killings, but the Gemini Killer was in charge of them.

The Gemini's original motivation was to humiliate his loathed father, a preacher. The Gemini Killer believes his job is complete when his father dies through natural causes, and he sees no reason to keep Karras' body. He summons the detective; feeling obligated to explain everything to Kinderman, and succeeds in getting Kinderman to admit that he believes he, Sunlight, is the Gemini Killer. He then wills himself to pass away from heart failure.

Dr. Temple had a stroke and becomes intellectually handicapped as a result. Dr. Amfortas dies in a house accident after being harassed by a possibly demonic Doppelganger of himself, despite the fact that he was already terminally sick from a condition he refused to cure in order to join his departed wife).

Kinderman and his devoted buddy Atkins are in a burger bar in the novel's last chapter. Atkins is given Kinderman's views and speculations about the case, as well as how it connects to his issue with the concept of evil. Kinderman concludes that the Big Bang was Lucifer falling from heaven, that the entire Universe, including mankind, is made up of Lucifer's broken bits, and that evolution is the process of Lucifer reassembling himself as an angel.


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The Exorcist Summary

The Exorcist

Published: June 1971

Author: William Peter Blatty

Book 1 of 2: The Exorcist Series

Genres: American, Classics, Demonic Possession, Demonology & Satanism, Fiction, Horror, Movie Tie-In, Occult, Psychological


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Summary:

Father Lankester Merrin, an old Jesuit priest, is organizing an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and examining ancient relics. Following the discovery of a tiny statue of the demon Pazuzu (a real ancient Assyrian demon), a succession of omens warns him of an impending encounter with a tremendous evil, which he had already faced in an exorcism in Africa, which the reader is unaware of at this time.

Meanwhile, in Georgetown, a small girl named Regan MacNeil lives with her renowned mother, actress Chris MacNeil, who is filming a movie there. As Chris completes her work on the film, Regan begins to become unwell for no apparent reason. Regan begins to rapidly undergo disturbing psychological and physical changes after a series of poltergeist-like disturbances in their rented house, for which Chris attempts to find rational explanations. She refuses to eat or sleep, becomes withdrawn and frenetic, and becomes increasingly aggressive and violent. Regan's conduct is originally misinterpreted by Chris as the consequence of buried resentment at her parents' split and her father's absence.

As Regan's behavior grows increasingly unstable, Regan's mother, an atheist, seeks aid from a local Jesuit priest after many unsuccessful psychiatric and medical therapies. Father Damien Karras, who is having a faith crisis as a result of his mother's death, agrees to see Regan as a psychiatrist, but first rejects the idea that it is a genuine demonic possession. He approaches the local bishop for permission to conduct an exorcism on the kid after a few encounters with the youngster, who is now totally possessed by a demonic entity.

The bishop he contacts believe Karras is unqualified to conduct the rituals, so he chooses Merrin, an experienced exorcist who has lately returned to the United States, to administer the exorcism, but he does allow the doubt-ridden Karras to help him. The priests are put to the test both physically and spiritually throughout the protracted exorcism.

When Merrin, who had previously suffered from cardiac arrhythmia, passes away during the procedure, Father Karras is left to finish the exorcism. The devil seizes the opportunity to possess the priest as he demands that the demonic spirit occupy him instead of the innocent Regan. Karras bravely sacrifices his own life to save Regan's by jumping out of her bedroom window and dying, rediscovering his trust in God as his final rites are read.


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