A demon possession. Strange and unexpected events. Details of the afterworld.

Jean Price Grandinetti, of Onodaga Hill, explores them all in her first novel, The Possession of Aunt Lura.
The 347-page novel is based on true events surrounding her own aunt's death in 1981, said Grandetti, a 76-year-old Ahepa apartments resident and award winning poet.
Grandinetti grew up in the Valley - South Side - and went to Onondaga Valley Academy.
Except for three years she spent with her husband, Tom, in Georgia, she's lived in the Syracuse area her whole life.
She worked in circulation at the Syracuse Herald-Journal, an advertising department at a local firm and a federal education research institute editing reports.
She also ran a local sign business with her first husband, Dick Price.

Told from the perspective of Aunt Lura, the first part of the novel shows how a very religious woman was tormented and taken over by a gang of 16 demons.
The second part of the novel is about Grandinetti's experiences as she traveled to Elmira to take care of funeral arrangements and clean out her aunt's apartment.
"There were pictures of Jesus and the Holy Mother practically covering her walls," she said.
"And when the head demon would take over her body, he would slash the pictures with a long knife."

Grandinetti said when she started cleaning out her aunt's apartment, weird things started to happen.
"I would be the only one in the apartment and things would disappear," she said.
"Or a soft drink can would fall to the floor when it was sitting in the middle of a table."
After moving the furniture, the strange events continued at Grandinetti's own house.
The final section of the novel is about what happened to Aunt Lura after she "passed over."
"When she dies, she was still possessed and in Hell," she said. "It took several years to get her into the light."
Grandinetti said she worked with her psychic friend to communicate with Aunt Lura through automatic writing, a system in which the spirit takes over a lining person's hand and can write through them.
"It's such an interesting read," Grandinetti said. "Aunt Lura gave me a lot of the material."

The book includes vivid descriptions of both Heaven and Hell.
"In Heaven there is no night and day, it is just light all the time," she said.
"There is no meat allowed because you can't kill animals, but sometimes they feast on fruits and vegetables."

An Author's Dream Publishing, based in California, is printing Grandinetti's novel.
It is listed for $13.95, selling at Amazon.com, other online sources and local bookstores.
Wegmans stores also are considering stocking the book, she said.
She is working on other books and writes a monthly newsletter, "The Wandering Reporter."
One is a children's book called "The Mysterious Castle."
Her other book idea is about her experiences with channeling- a process where a spirit of the highest order can come in and take over and talk to the living.

In May 2005, Grandinetti won a "poet of merit award" from the Nation Society of Poets and an "outstanding achievement" award in August 2005 from the International Society of Poets.
Both awards were for her poem "How Warm Your Kiss Was Yesterday." written the night her second husband Tom Grandinetti died.
She says she's been writing skits, plays and songs since she was young.
She plays piano and sings and often performs, especially for the senior residents at her apartment complex.
Grandinetti also writes a monthly newsletter for seniors in the community, with funny cartoons, pictures, jokes, trivia, and quotes.
"I figure we can use all the laughs we can get" she said.
"That's my lot in life- to make people laugh and feel good."