The Entity
by Frank De Felitta
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A young single mother has her life turned upside down when she begins to be attacked in her bed each night. Is she psychotic? Or is there a sinister force at work?Tags
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jseger9000 Another highly fictionalized account of a purportedly true haunting.
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This was a spooky and creepy story!
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 show more 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 show less
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 show more 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 show less
Truly frightening. Supposedly based on a real encounter. Disturbing in that is reminds one that any one is vulnerable.
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Frank Paul De Felitta was born in the Bronx, New York on August 3, 1921. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the Army Air Forces. He wrote scripts for a weekly radio thriller entitled The Whistler. He went on to write for TV anthology series and produced and directed documentaries. In 1966, he directed an NBC documentary in which Booker show more Wright, a black waiter from Mississippi, spoke candidly about how shabbily he had been treated by customers in a whites-only restaurant. Wright was eventually murdered. De Felitta won a Peabody Award for his documentary work. He also wrote the screenplays for the films Anzio, The Savage Is Loose, and The Entity. He wrote several horror novels including Audrey Rose and For Love of Audrey Rose. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1977 film Audrey Rose starring Anthony Hopkins. He died on March 29, 2016 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Entity
- Original title
- The Entity
- Original publication date
- 1978
- People/Characters
- Carlotta Moran; Gary Sneidermann
- Related movies
- The Entity (1981 | IMDb)
- Epigraph
- 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.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)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.
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- Fiction and Literature, Horror, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .D2992 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 5 — Dutch, English, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian, Portuguese
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