Occult-Based Infernal Horror
Discover the finest occult-based infernal horror books, including Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and Wormwood. Explore demonic possession, satanic rituals, and chilling supernatural dread in this curated list of terrifying fiction.
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Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
Young wife Rosemary Woodhouse is drawn into a nightmare when she is selected by a coven to bear the son of Satan.
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The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured.
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Wormwood
by Poppy Brite
“Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them . . . this is the voice we’re going to be hearing for a long time.”—Harlan Ellison In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can’t hear the music. . . Behind a dusty Georgia carny show. . . In a mausoleum in Baton Rouge, or in an alley in Calcutta. . . Here wanderers come to rest, the lost and lonely press their bodies up against each other, the heat rises, flesh yields, bones are bared, blood spills. This is the landscape of today’s most brilliant young horror writer, Poppy Z. Brite. Now, in a collection that sings like cutting edge rock ’n’ roll and shows the deft touch of a master storyteller, Poppy Z. Brite weaves her unique spell of the sensual, the frightening, and the forbidden. . . “Every page of Brite’s work stresses the beautiful and heartbreaking strangeness of the world.”—Fangoria