Scream Like a Prayer (1985)

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A perfect capsule of growing up, or trying to, in 1985. Except this 1985 is seeping blood, and blood, and more blood. - Stephen Graham Jones , New York Times Bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Scream Like a Prayer is a knockout possession novel, haunted by twisted family secrets and lurking violence, replete with all the bright and feverish terrors of childhood. - Josh Rountree , author of The Unkillable Frank Lightning Sometimes you have to pray in the dark for a miracle to happen. 1985, San Dimas, California. When eleven-year-old Samuel McCammon writes five words on the blackboard that kill his sixth-grade teacher, he starts to wonder if something is seriously wrong with his mind. A trip to the hospital reveals that nothing is physically wrong with him, but he keeps hearing fragments of a song he can't remember, and keeps seeing flashes of the demon he once saw in his