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  • Demons
  • Preston, VA
  • Mental Health
  • Church
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Writing and researching A GOOD AND HAPPY CHILD was a five-year endeavor.

I spent hours in libraries and on the internet researching demons, Honduras, mysticism, Thorazine, and Civil War generals… as well as reliving memories of my childhood. I started when I was twenty-nine. I finished at thirty-five. It was an arduous, and quite personal, journey.
In this website I’d like to share that process with you. I became absorbed in the subject matter. It was like living a movie montage—the one where the investigator, alone at midnight in a lab he broke into, begins clicking through computer files, faster and faster, until he stops and reads one, and murmurs “Oh… my… god…” unveiling the conspiracy at last: When it comes to demon possession and mental illness, fact—or at least, tradition—is more intriguing than fiction.

So come on in, follow my tracks. I’ve doubled back through my files and pulled as many references, links and websites I could. Unless you’re braver than I am, you’ll be at least a little spooked to read the raw material that inspired A GOOD AND HAPPY CHILD.