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[Book Review] Highly Acclaimed ‘The Demonologist’ Possessed By Silly Demon Stuff

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Posted by Ryan Daley on March 20, 2013 @ 7:04pm
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Since its publication earlier this month, Andrew Pyper’s The Demonologist has garnered mad praise from both fiction bloggers and fellow genre authors. His trim little novel––about a college professor convinced that a demon has abducted his daughter––has been repeatedly heralded as one of the more frightening reads to come down the pike. And while it has its moments, be warned, the potency of the scares may depend on the reader’s willingness to go along with a few moments of Satanic silliness.

Canadian author Pyper has been a bestselling novelist for years (Lost Girls, The Killing Circle, The Wildfire Season), but he has yet to become a household name here in the States. Perhaps the building buzz behind The Demonologist will be enough to shove him face-first into the horror limelight.

The Demonologist was released by Simon and Schuster on March 5. Read on for the full review. READ MORE

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Adapting ‘The Demonologist’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 22, 2012 @ 12:11pm
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Universal Pictures has hired of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan to adapt Andrew Pyper’s not-yet-published novel, The Demonologist for the studio, reports Vulture.

Robert Zemeckis is producing the film through his ImageMovers production company. No director is yet attached to the project, which the studio optioned last February.

“‘The Demonologist’ follows a Columbia University professor who specializes in demonic literature but who himself is a profound skeptic of the occult. But when his 12 year old daughter winds up in the grip of the actual underworld, he must use his expertise in the signs and symbols of Milton’s Paradise Lost as a guide to rescue her.”

In the meantime, Simon & Schuster is planning to publish “The Demonologist” on March 5, 2013 in North America. READ MORE