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==Summary==
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''How to Make Friends with Demons'' by Graham Joyce is an adult horror novel, originally published on March 1, 2001.
William Heaney is a man well acquainted with demons. Not his broken family — his wife has left him for a celebrity chef, his snobbish teenaged son despises him, and his daughter's new boyfriend resembles Nosferatu — nor his drinking problem, nor his unfulfilling government job, but real demons.
 
 
 
For demons are real, and William has identified one thousand five hundred and sixty-seven smoky figures, dwelling on the shadowy fringes of human life, influencing our decisions with their sweet and poisoned voices.
 
 
 
After a series of seemingly unconnected personal encounters — with a beautiful and captivating woman met in the company of an infuriating poet, a troubled and damaged veteran of Desert Storm with demons of his own, and an old school acquaintance with whom he shared a mystical occult ritual — William Heaney's life is thrown into a direction he does not fully comprehend. Past and present collide. Long-dormant choices and forgotten deceptions surface. Secrets threaten to become exposed. To weather the changes, William Heaney must learn one how to make friends with demons.
 
  
 
==Trigger Warnings==
 
==Trigger Warnings==
 
*Alcoholism
 
*Alcoholism
*Attempted Devil Worship/Sacrifice
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*Anti-Arab sentiments
*Cheating Spouse
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*Attempted devil worship/sacrifice
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*Cheating spouse
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*Choking
 
*Christianity
 
*Christianity
 
*Demons (real and fake)
 
*Demons (real and fake)
*Drug Use/Addiction
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*Drug use/addiction
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*Emesis
 
*Homelessness
 
*Homelessness
 
*Kinkshaming
 
*Kinkshaming
*Misogyny & Sexism
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*Physical assault
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*Mental illness
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*Misogyny
 
*Questionable use of tropes (promiscuous bisexual, ''implied'' & predatory gay, ''rumored'')
 
*Questionable use of tropes (promiscuous bisexual, ''implied'' & predatory gay, ''rumored'')
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*R-word (used once in passing)
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*Sexism
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*Sex work
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*Shell shock
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*Slurs (racial, religious, mental illness, and homophobic)
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*Stalking
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*Suicide/Murder via bomb attack
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*War (The Gulf War & the horrors of)
  
 
==Representation==
 
==Representation==
 
An asterisk (*) indicates that the author '''openly identifies''' with that identity.
 
An asterisk (*) indicates that the author '''openly identifies''' with that identity.
  
*Middle Aged British Man
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*Recovering drug addict/sex worker
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*Shell-shocked Gulf War veteran
  
 
==Tropes==
 
==Tropes==
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Latest revision as of 14:09, 20 February 2024

How to Make Friends with Demons
Cover of How to Make Friends with Demons by Graham Joyce
Author(s) Graham Joyce
Published March 1st, 2001
Genre(s) Horror
Paranormal
Age group Adult


How to Make Friends with Demons by Graham Joyce is an adult horror novel, originally published on March 1, 2001.

Trigger Warnings

  • Alcoholism
  • Anti-Arab sentiments
  • Attempted devil worship/sacrifice
  • Cheating spouse
  • Choking
  • Christianity
  • Demons (real and fake)
  • Drug use/addiction
  • Emesis
  • Homelessness
  • Kinkshaming
  • Physical assault
  • Mental illness
  • Misogyny
  • Questionable use of tropes (promiscuous bisexual, implied & predatory gay, rumored)
  • R-word (used once in passing)
  • Sexism
  • Sex work
  • Shell shock
  • Slurs (racial, religious, mental illness, and homophobic)
  • Stalking
  • Suicide/Murder via bomb attack
  • War (The Gulf War & the horrors of)

Representation

An asterisk (*) indicates that the author openly identifies with that identity.

  • Recovering drug addict/sex worker
  • Shell-shocked Gulf War veteran

Tropes

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