2022/005: The Devil You Know -- Mike Carey

2022/005: The Devil You Know -- Mike Carey

But how many people do you know who actually get to choose what they do for a living? My careers teacher said I should go into hotel management, so exorcism it was. [p. 27]

Freelance exorcist Felix Castor has been avoiding exorcisms since one went horribly wrong, but the bills are piling up and his amiable landlady Pen is at risk of losing her house. Felix is taking 'ordinary' jobs to make ends meet, but his most recent booking, as a stage magician at a spoilt teenager's party, did not end well. When he receives a request to exorcise the ghost of a young woman who's haunting an archive in Euston, Felix -- Fix to his friends, of whom he has few -- decides it might solve his immediate difficulties.( Read more... )