Sarchie has an explanation for everything that happens. When Gabby eventually becomes possessed by the demon while Sarchie and his partner are in the residence, he concludes that they are "in the presence of one of hell's most dangerous devils" and relies on the name of Jesus Christ to draw it out again. In one particularly nasty aside, Sarchie interprets the description of a furry-looking creature as an incubus intent on raping Dominick and Gabby's daughter Luciana. The claims go on: Books flung at the walls, "moans and growls" from the basement, the word "HELP" written backward on the bathroom mirror. In the days that follow, Gabby says she saw the ghost of her father - a claim her 5-year-old son eventually echoes.
Eventually, Gabby's friend Ruth becomes drawn into the story, weaving an elaborate tale - supposedly cooked up by the demon - about a woman who was murdered on her wedding night, and whose fiancé was falsely accused of the crime. No one else could see her, but Dominick says she began speaking through his wife. Their troubles began in autumn, when Gabby says she saw a woman, standing in a cloud of white smoke, in the corner of her bedroom.
It begins with "The Halloween Horror," the story of Dominick and Gabby Villanova, who claim they've been beset by a demon. Unlike Deliver Us From Evil, Sarchie's book is a series of unconnected cases. (Sarchie did concede, in an interview with The New York Times, that he bought a house in Long Island with the money he got for selling the film rights to his book.) He also brags that neither he nor his partner ever "sought publicity for our involvement in the Work." He does not explain why he abandoned this anti-publicity stance for his book or its Hollywood adaptation.
"He never once charged for this work," reads the only bolded line in a credulous (and unbylined) interview at Vice. "Helping people who have spiritual problems isn't a career for us - it's a calling." It's a detail that comes up in most profiles about Sarchie. "When Joe and I handle cases as demonologists in our off-duty hours, we don't charge a cent for our services," writes Sarchie. But most of all, Sarchie wants you to know that his services are free.
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