The Ritual is a 2011 British horror novel by Adam Nevill. The book was first released in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2011 through Pan Macmillan and...

Ritual is a horror novel by British actor and author David Pinner, first published in 1967. An English police officer named David Hanlin—a puritanical...

opera Ritual (Pinner novel), a 1967 novel by David Pinner; basis for the 1973 film The Wicker Man Ritual, a 2008 novel by Mo Hayder The Ritual (novel), a...

The Ritual is a 2017 British supernatural folk horror film directed by David Bruckner and written by Joe Barton. Based on the 2011 novel of the same name...

Rituals (Dutch: Rituelen) is a 1980 novel by Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. The novel's narrative follows two friends, one who breaks rules frequently and...

1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was King's 22nd book and the 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows the experiences...

the novel was released in 2023. The novel is set in an unnamed Midwestern hamlet, where each year, all of the young men take part in a yearly ritual in...

known for his book The Ritual. Prior to becoming a full-time author, Nevill worked as an editor. After publishing several novels through Pan Macmillan...

magic (also known as magick, ritual magic, high magic or learned magic) encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic. The works included are characterized...

some tribal societies. Ritual fighting (or ritual battle or ritual warfare) permits the display of courage, masculinity, and the expression of emotion...

completing the ritual. The Hebrew version in Oxford is limited to Book One, without reference to the further books. Of all the extant sources, the German...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), published sixteen years earlier. The novel is set in a parallel universe made up of hundreds of halls and vestibules...

their blood in the performance of religious rituals. Echoing very old myths of secret cultic practices in many prehistoric societies, the claim, as it is...

Pennywise, and Pennywise the Dancing Clown, is the titular antagonist in Stephen King's 1986 horror novel of the same name. The character is an ancient...

they had brought shame to themselves. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators...

The Concubine is the debut novel by Nigerian writer Elechi Amadi originally published in 1966 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series. Set in a...

Bunny is a novel by Mona Awad, published in the United States in 2019 by Viking Press. It is the author's second novel, published three years after her...

age 7 to 17. As the story opens, Titus dreads the pre-ordained life of ritual that stretches before him. To Titus, Master of Ritual Barquentine and his...

Carrie is a 1974 horror novel, the first by American author Stephen King. Set in Chamberlain, Maine, the plot revolves around Carrie White, a friendless...

between the United States, Portugal, France, and Spain, the film is loosely based upon Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 novel The Club Dumas. The film stars...

The Ceremonies is a novel by T. E. D. Klein published in 1984. The Ceremonies is an extension of Klein's earlier novella, "The Events at Poroth Farm",...

childbirth was a widespread belief, allied with the need for ritual purification. Lifetime adapted the novel into a two-part miniseries, which premiered December...

initiation ritual or initiation ceremony. The ceremony involves significant ritual, oaths, blood, and an agreement is made to follow the rules of the Mafia...

White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. White Noise is a cornerstone...

Places is a mystery novel by Gillian Flynn published in 2009. The novel deals with class issues in rural America, intense poverty and the Satanic cult hysteria...

in the 2002 video game Stuntman Blood brothers participating in a "blood oath" ritual Blood oath (Hungarians), a pact between the leaders of the seven...

seven-year-old son. Solomon explains that once they begin, if they leave the house before the ritual is finished, they will be in grave peril, and that Sophia must...

The Wasp Factory is the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1984. Before the publication of The Wasp Factory, Banks had written several...

Confucian ritual and to critique it. Stephen Roddy argues that the novel is divided into four sections, which correspond to successive eras of the Ming. The introductory...

and themes of the Gothic novel held a particular fascination for the Victorians, with their obsession with mourning rituals, mementos, and mortality in...