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Violence
Some
Violence including murders committed by the narrator under the influence of his sinister companion
Language
None
Period-appropriate language; no modern profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Deep psychological themes around religious mania, the nature of evil, and whether the devil walks among us
What this book is about
James Hogg's Gothic masterpiece of religious mania and psychological horror. Violence includes murders. The theological horror of predestinarian extremism makes this deeply unsettling. Adult literary readers.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Religious extremism
Murder
Psychological horror
Gothic Scottish literature
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