A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South Bronx. But it is his other job that he calls "the Work": investigating cases of demonic possession and assisting in the exorcisms of humanity's most ancient--and most dangerous--foes. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood except by Sarchie and his partner. Schooled in the rituals of exorcism, and an eyewitness to the reality of demonic possession, Ralph Sarchie has documented a riveting chronicle of the inexplicable that gives a new shape to the shadows in the dark. His revelations are a powerful and disturbing documented link between the true-crime realities of life and the blood-chilling ice-grip of a supernatural terror.--From publisher description.

The Halloween horror -- Nightmare's end -- Cops and soul robbers -- The house by the graveyard -- The incubus attack -- The satanic stalker -- Caught by the occult -- The werewolf -- Dabblers in the damned -- Busting the devil -- The September curse -- Real-life ghost stories -- A deadly sin -- Possessed over the phone -- Appendix: Prayers of exorcism ; The rosary ; Act of consecration to the Virgin Mary.