Book· 2016· Horror

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

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The Exorcist

Film · 1973

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Grady Hendrix pitched the novel as "Beaches meets The Exorcist": a teenage girl possessed in 1988, and the best friend who has to get her back, ending in an exorcism of her own.

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My Best Friend's Exorcism

Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act--different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries--and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil? My Best Friend's Exorcism is a 2016 horror novel by Grady Hendrix. A hardback edition was published on May 17, 2016, through Quirk Books and an audiobook narrated by Emily Woo Zeller was released through Blackstone Audio.