Disappearance at Devil's Rock is a novel by Paul Tremblay. Elizabeth Sanderson receives a call late one summer's night that changes everything. Her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished from the woods of a nearby state park and the searchers aren't finding any clues. Elizabeth and her eleven-year-old daughter, Kate are feeling helpless, alone and more than a little frustrated. The two friends that Tommy was hanging with, Josh and Luis, may not be telling the whole truth about the night they were at a landmark named Devil's Rock in Borderland State Park. Elizabeth also thinks that a wraith-like apparition of Tommy has appeared in her bedroom while Kate and other locals claim they have seen a shadowy figure peering through their windows in the dead of night. When random pages begin disappearing from Tommy's journal, Elizabeth learns that her son was obsessed with the supernatural. Tommy believed that the loss of his father to a drunk driving accident, a folktale involving a demon in the woods of Borderland, and the coming zombie "pocketclips" are all connected by one horrible incident. Is Tommy simply lost or did something more sinister happen that night at Devil's Rock?
My Best Friend's Exorcism is a novel by Grady Hendrix. It's 1988 in Charleston, South Carolina and Abby and Gretchen are high school sophomores. They have been best friends since the fourth grade, but after an evening of skinny-dipping goes horribly wrong, Abby has her doubts about the strength of their friendship. Gretchen begins acting strangely—she's moody, irritable, and just not herself. There is also the fact that bizarre incidents keep happening when Gretchen is around. Abby decides she has better get to the bottom of these strange events, but the conclusion she comes to terrifies her beyond belief. She is left asking herself one important question: Is her friendship with Gretchen strong enough to beat the devil?
Zero K is a novel by Don DeLillo. Ross Lockhart is a billionaire in his sixties married to a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. His son, Jeffrey, has joined them at a remote and secret compound where death is controlled and the body is preserved until biomedical advances and new technologies can restore them. Jeffrey finds the mission of this compound indefensible. He firmly believes that experiencing the here and now is the most important part of living life. Ross, however, feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. Artis sums up the conflict between father and son when she muses, "We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?"
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