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" Y]ou'll find this novel a compelling, frightening read ... a truly terrifying tale ... Careful plotting, well-wrought characters, and lots of scientific detail - along with the surefire appeal of sex, violence, and the paranormal - add up to a wonderfully scarifying experience." - Library Journal "A totally unique work of art ... one of the outstanding novels of the year." - Bestsellers "Readers will be white-knuckled ... a scary, intensely dramatic story of a woman rendered powerless by a potent and devastating adversary." - Publishers Weekly "A blockbuster of its genre ... a skilfully told tale of modern day horror that will have you sleeping with the bathroom light on." - Detroit Free Press "Harrowing ... a thriller which pits psychiatry against parapsychology ... tightly written and well-researched ... disturbing, even thought-provoking." - Cincinatti Enquirer "The Entity takes the reader beyond reality, the reality of psychiatry, even the reality of parapsychology. It probes beyond fiction into the nightmare realm of truth." - Chattanooga News & Free Press Carlotta Moran, a young single mother with three children, suddenly has her life turned upside down when she begins to be attacked in her bed each night, violated by a spectral rapist. This brutal unseen force makes attempts on her life and terrorizes her children, but the worst part is that no one believes her. Among the skeptics is psychiatrist Dr. Sneidermann, who believes Carlotta is psychotic, a danger to herself and her children who should be committed. But two graduate students in parapsychology have a different theory: that Carlotta is being tormented by a powerful entity from beyond our reality, outside space and time. The tension builds to an electrifying conclusion, and the truth may be far more frightening than any of them ever imagined ... Based on documented real-life events that happened to a California woman in 1974, Frank De Felitta's provocative and disturbing novel The Entity (1978) is a classic of occult literature. Like De Felitta's Audrey Rose (1975), which sold more than 2.5 million copies, The Entity was a worldwide bestseller, and was also adapted for a 1982 film starring Barbara Hershey. This edition features a new introduction by Gemma Files.… (more)
Carlotta Moran is terrorized by something only she can see each night in her bed. She is violently raped, but no one believes her because they cannot see what is raping her. Carlotta's three children (Billy, Julie and Kim) witness Carlotta being attacked but they are not able to help her because they too cannot see what is attacking her.
With no one believing her it is advised that she seek out psychiatric help which eventually leads her down a rabbit hole of non-believers as they think that she is just having hallucinations or nightmares. Carlotta eventually finds help by overhearing a couple of students from a college chatting about paranormal research and that begins a quest for Carlotta finding the help she seeks with what she is dealing with in her home.
Thoughts:
First let me say that this story is based on a true story that happened to a woman in California back in the 70's. The author went into great depth with this story and it basically reads as a true paranormal account of everything that happens with this woman.
The story is broken up into four parts with the first part giving a background on Carlotta and her family life. Then each part thereafter gives more detail into what she has to endure with people that do not believe her and people that do believe her finally.
The biggest problem for this type of occurrence is that the paranormal world was basically just not known at that time and back then there were not paranormal researchers all over the U.S. like there are today. The true account of the woman that this book is based off of was also made into a movie which I have not seen but it would be interesting to watch it to see how it plays out on the screen. Giving this book four "Spooky Spectral Entity" stars.
en-ti-ty (ML entitas) BEING, EXISTENCE: something that has separate and distinct existence, real or imagined.
Dedication
For Raymond, my son
First words
March 23, 1977 - Statement made by suspect, Jorge (Jerry) Rodriquez, booked on first degree assault charge, taped in the presence of Officer John Flynn, #1730522.
Quotations
Last words
The eye-witness accounts of too many individuals, some of them by no means sympathetic to the project, make the case incontrovertible that the entity existed, independent of other human beings, that it occupied space and time in our world, and that it interacted with physical matter.
" Y]ou'll find this novel a compelling, frightening read ... a truly terrifying tale ... Careful plotting, well-wrought characters, and lots of scientific detail - along with the surefire appeal of sex, violence, and the paranormal - add up to a wonderfully scarifying experience." - Library Journal "A totally unique work of art ... one of the outstanding novels of the year." - Bestsellers "Readers will be white-knuckled ... a scary, intensely dramatic story of a woman rendered powerless by a potent and devastating adversary." - Publishers Weekly "A blockbuster of its genre ... a skilfully told tale of modern day horror that will have you sleeping with the bathroom light on." - Detroit Free Press "Harrowing ... a thriller which pits psychiatry against parapsychology ... tightly written and well-researched ... disturbing, even thought-provoking." - Cincinatti Enquirer "The Entity takes the reader beyond reality, the reality of psychiatry, even the reality of parapsychology. It probes beyond fiction into the nightmare realm of truth." - Chattanooga News & Free Press Carlotta Moran, a young single mother with three children, suddenly has her life turned upside down when she begins to be attacked in her bed each night, violated by a spectral rapist. This brutal unseen force makes attempts on her life and terrorizes her children, but the worst part is that no one believes her. Among the skeptics is psychiatrist Dr. Sneidermann, who believes Carlotta is psychotic, a danger to herself and her children who should be committed. But two graduate students in parapsychology have a different theory: that Carlotta is being tormented by a powerful entity from beyond our reality, outside space and time. The tension builds to an electrifying conclusion, and the truth may be far more frightening than any of them ever imagined ... Based on documented real-life events that happened to a California woman in 1974, Frank De Felitta's provocative and disturbing novel The Entity (1978) is a classic of occult literature. Like De Felitta's Audrey Rose (1975), which sold more than 2.5 million copies, The Entity was a worldwide bestseller, and was also adapted for a 1982 film starring Barbara Hershey. This edition features a new introduction by Gemma Files.
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Carlotta Moran, a young single mother with three children, suddenly has her life turned upside down when she begins to be attacked in her bed each night, violated by a spectral rapist. This brutal unseen force makes attempts on her life and terrorizes her children, but the worst part is that no one believes her. Among the skeptics is psychiatrist Dr. Sneidermann, who believes Carlotta is psychotic, a danger to herself and her children who should be committed. But two graduate students in parapsychology have a different theory: that Carlotta is being tormented by a powerful entity from beyond our reality, outside space and time. The tension builds to an electrifying conclusion, and the truth may be far more frightening than any of them ever imagined ...
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A small backstory:
Carlotta Moran is terrorized by something only she can see each night in her bed. She is violently raped, but no one believes her because they cannot see what is raping her. Carlotta's three children (Billy, Julie and Kim) witness Carlotta being attacked but they are not able to help her because they too cannot see what is attacking her.
With no one believing her it is advised that she seek out psychiatric help which eventually leads her down a rabbit hole of non-believers as they think that she is just having hallucinations or nightmares. Carlotta eventually finds help by overhearing a couple of students from a college chatting about paranormal research and that begins a quest for Carlotta finding the help she seeks with what she is dealing with in her home.
Thoughts:
First let me say that this story is based on a true story that happened to a woman in California back in the 70's. The author went into great depth with this story and it basically reads as a true paranormal account of everything that happens with this woman.
The story is broken up into four parts with the first part giving a background on Carlotta and her family life. Then each part thereafter gives more detail into what she has to endure with people that do not believe her and people that do believe her finally.
The biggest problem for this type of occurrence is that the paranormal world was basically just not known at that time and back then there were not paranormal researchers all over the U.S. like there are today. The true account of the woman that this book is based off of was also made into a movie which I have not seen but it would be interesting to watch it to see how it plays out on the screen. Giving this book four "Spooky Spectral Entity" stars.
For more thoughts on this review, please see my blog:
https://booknookretreat.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-entity-by-frank-de-felitta.html (