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CHAPTER ONE Welcome to the House of Horrors BEFORE THE MOVIES. Before the spin-offs, the memes, and the merch. Before the doll was locked in a bulletproof case under strict priestly supervision. There were just two people. Ed and Lorraine Warren. He was a self-taught demonologist. She was a professed clairvoyant and trance medium. Together, they spent over fifty years walking into the darkness. Not away from it. Into it. They weren’t ghost hunters in the modern sense. They weren’t thrill-seekers, skeptics, or adrenaline junkies. They were devout Catholics, sworn to spiritual battle. In their eyes, every possession, every haunting, every cursed object… was a cosmic war for someone’s soul....