The Parasite (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ramsey Campbell
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—occult
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: England, Germany, and New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Magical and occult fantasy
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, 1980’s, Pregnancy, Rape, England or English people, Parasites, Germany or German people
- Locales: New York, NY, England, Germany
The Plot
When she is a young girl, Rose Tierney, with a group of teenagers, sneaks off to a deserted, reputedly haunted house. During a séance in the house, a spirit speaks and says that it pervades the house. When the young girl is locked by accident in a room in the house, she senses that an unseen spirit is raping her and inhabiting her body.
After Rose, as an adult, is mugged in New York City, she begins to experience out-of-body traveling and gradually learns that she has been raped by the parasitic form of an occultist, Peter Grace, who, through her, sought...
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