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Pepper, a tall, boisterous newcomer, finds himself overnight in a cramped psychiatric facility in Queens, New York. Although he carries no mental illness, the staff insists he is a patient. The first night, a terrifying figure nearly kills him before hospital personnel intervene. The other inmates confirm that a real devil prowls the corridors after sundown. Determined to rid the institution of the creature, Pepper recruits three fellow patients: Dorry, an eighty‑year‑old schizophrenic; Coffee, an African immigrant tormented by obsessive‑compulsive disorder; and Loochie, a teen grappling with bipolar disorder. Together they devise a plan to fight the demon, battling not only the staff’s pill regimen but also their own internal struggles as they confront whether the devil can be defeated.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Victor D. LaValle
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