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Demon Night

J. Michael Straczynski (1988)

SubgenreNear Future Thriller
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.44

Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentNone
LanguageModerate

Trigger warnings

Death of ParentSupernatural HorrorViolencePossessionGraphic ViolencePsychological Horror

Positive tags

Supernatural SuspenseSmall Town Horror

Tropes

Supernatural HorrorCursed ProtagonistReturn to HometownAncient EvilPossessionReluctant HeroSmall Town SecretsWar Between Good and Evil

Themes

Good vs EvilSupernatural ForcesInherited TraumaFate vs Free WillSmall Town DarknessPast Haunting PresentIdentity

Synopsis

A young man awakes from a recurring nightmare to find that, once again, his apartment has been the TV is on fire, the mirrors shattered, the aquarium exploded with such force that shards of glass are embedded in the opposite wall; and once again a voice is saying, Come home... And so he does. Home is the small Maine town where his parents were both killed in a grotesque car wreck years before. The kind of town Stephen King has described as mostly indifference spiced with an occasional vapid evil--or worse, a conscious one. A small town caught in a centuries-old war between supernatural forces. This is a genuinely frightening tale of death and demons, love and possession.

Tags

HorrorSupernatural ThrillerDark FantasyPsychological Horror