The Exorcist Files: True Stories About the Reality of Evil and How to Defeat It
By Fr Carlos Martins
Hodder and Stoughton, £18
“People ask me what it is like to battle the Devil,” muses Fr Carlos Martins. “My opponent is hatred himself … When I walk into a room to conduct an exorcism, the contempt and disdain of the ancient serpent, the one who refused to obey God, the one who caused our first parents to fall, the one who delights in every human misfortune and suffering, meets me head-on.”
Since the death in 2016 of Fr Gabriele Amorth, the Italian priest who was played by Russell Crowe in the fantastical 2023 film The Pope’s Exorcist, Father Martins has emerged as perhaps the world’s most renowned expert in this field, not only because the many exorcisms he has performed but thanks to his Exorcist Filespodcast which has been downloaded by millions.
