The Other Side: The True Story of the Boy Who Sees Ghosts

""Michael's name was repeated again in a string of words that ran together, which roughly read: MICHAEL WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU YOU KNOW WHY and then the number 3 and a roughly drawn eye with red drops dripping from it"" describes what terrified Jones on the day she realized that all the paranormal events that had occurred up to now were part of a diabolical plan to harm her 10-year-old boy. Objects had been flying around rooms, mysterious welts appeared on Michael's body, her mother-in-law was mysteriously thrown down the basement stair. Jones, her husband and three children are ordinary Americans, practicing Catholics and keep to themselves; they seem not terribly sophisticated. Despite Jones's clumsy writing, there is something about the naked conviction evident in her every sentence (as well as the psychologist and neurologist's confirmation that Michael is perfectly healthy) that will keep readers turning the pages as the horror builds to a dramatic climax involving exorcised demons and protective angels. With the broad media coverage Jones has already received, the recent revival of The Exorcist and the popularity of more recent movies like The Sixth Sense, this book has a guaranteed readership, particularly among those who haunt the occult and New Age section of bookstores. (Nov.)