Book Review: Fighting Malevolent Spirits by Samantha E. Harris

Title: Fighting Malevolent Spirits

Author: Samantha E. Harris

Genre: Non-Fiction, True Haunting, Ghosts & Hauntings

Age Group: Adult

Rating: 4 stars

Purchase: Amazon

Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

A True Warrior in the Battle of Good and Evil

A demon hellbent on chaos and pain throws a young man across a room again and again, without mercy or remorse, attempting to break his spirit and mutilate his soul. The evil spirits at the site of an old sanitarium destroy an innocent family, driving them into an unfathomable hole of addiction and madness. Ghostly shrieks of pain drive a researcher to the point of insanity, pushing her toward the infinite blackness of total annihilation.

Demonologist Samantha E. Harris has faced the world’s most malicious entities . . . and lived to tell the tales. Fighting Malevolent Spirits tells the true stories of her darkest, creepiest, most terrifying cases. Featuring extreme encounters with poltergeists, demons, and unhappy spirits of the dead–and the story of Samantha’s desperate call for help to renowned demonologist Lorraine Warren–this book includes a question-and-answer section for determining the cause of profane paranormal disturbances and how-to instructions for dealing with outbreaks of diabolical activity.

Praise: “Read during the daytime and light a white candle.”–Cindy Deukmejian, Producer of A&E’s My Haunted House

In Fighting Malevolent Spirits, author Samantha E. Harris talks about evil spirits, the ones who have zero good intention and are focused on destroying everyone who stands in their way. The author talks about her darkest, creepiest and most terrifying encounters, ranging from poltergeists to demons. While I’m still skeptical about whether or not demons exist, I enjoyed all parts of this book, including the ones focused on demonic activity.

Some of the encounters sound a bit over the top, and too sensational to be real, but it still sounds more real than half of the ghost hunter shows on TV nowadays. The author tells the reader, time and time again, how dangerous it is to go up against a demon, poltergeist, or malicious spirit, alone and unprepared. She then goes on to give some tips on how one can prepare themselves for a supernatural encounter, which are actually rather helpful.

This is one of the scariest true haunting books I’ve read in a while. I couldn’t cope with reading the book at night, so I had to run it in the middle of the day. To imagine being really face to face with the haunts described here, that must be terrifying. Even when reading the book, I got goosebumps all over, and that creepy sense of being watched.

A solid read if you like true haunting books, and/or if you think your house may be infested with something malicious.