William Peter Blatty

Originally published in 1971, The Exorcist is now a major television series on FOX. It remains one of the most controversial novels ever written and went on to become a literary phenomenon: It spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, seventeen consecutively at number one. Inspired by a true story of a child’s demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty created an iconic novel that focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C. A small group of overwhelmed yet determined individuals must rescue Regan from her unspeakable fate, and the drama that ensues is gripping and unfailingly terrifying. Two years after its publication, The Exorcist was, of course, turned into a wildly popular motion picture, garnering ten Academy Award nominations. On opening day of the film, lines of the novel’s fans stretched around city blocks. In Chicago, frustrated moviegoers used a battering ram to gain entry through the double side doors of a theater. In Kansas City, police used tear gas to disperse an impatient crowd who tried to force their way into a cinema. The three major television networks carried footage of these events; CBS’s Walter Cronkite devoted almost ten minutes to the story. The Exorcist was, and is, more than just a novel and a film: it is a true landmark. Purposefully raw and profane, The Exorcist still has the extraordinary ability to disturb readers and cause them to forget that it is “just a story.” Published here in this beautiful fortieth anniversary edition, it remains an unforgettable reading experience and will continue to shock and frighten a new generation of readers.

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of The Exorcist -- Legion, a classic tale of horror, is back in print!A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation?Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests? Is there a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years ago—and supposedly ended with the death of the killer?Legion is a novel of breathtaking energy and suspense. But more than this, it is an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing questions of the human condition.The answers are revealed in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of The Exorcist—William Peter Blatty.

The Exorcist and Legion Special Edition by William Peter Blatty Interior artwork Keith Minnion A Note For The signed Limited Edition and Lettered Edition both sold out pre-publication. About this Special Featuring two classic William Peter Blatty novels in one beautiful volume for the first-time ever, this oversized deluxe special edition will be a must-have for any collector of horror! This incredible collector's edition also includes original B&W artwork by acclaimed artist Keith Minnion and a career spanning interview conducted by Cemetery Dance Managing Editor Brian James Freeman, covering Blatty's life and career from the 1950s to the present. Both the Limited Edition and the Lettered Edition are signed by William Peter Blatty and there are no plans at this time to publish a trade edition of this special volume. A Note From the "I have for many years envisioned The Exorcist and Legion to be one continuous read, even though the former is a fact-based, clearly 'religious thriller,' while the story of Legion delivers more excitingly on the level of a pure 'entertain-ment.' Never-the-less, it is Legion and not The Exorcist that is by far the more ambitious work in that the demonic homicides that police Lt. Kinderman is investigating are of much lesser concern to him than solving that case of cosmic homicide that for eons, and for so many and for so long, has been the foremost stumbling block to belief in a benevolent Creator, namely the so-called 'Problem of Evil,' to which Legion brazenly offers a solution."

Published in 1967 and then extensively revised in 1978, The Ninth Configuration is a fascinating look at madness, philosophy, and the nature of religious belief. Both The Ninth Configuration and Twinkle, Twinkle 'Killer' Kane have been out of print for decades, but this new edition combines both novels with a long essay by Mark Kermode.

William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-bestseller The Exorcist . Now Blatty gives us Dimiter , a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion, it is a novel in the grand tradition of Morris West’s The Devil’s Advocate and the Catholic novels of Graham Greene.Dimiter opens in the world’s most oppressive and isolated totalitarian Albania in the 1970s. A prisoner suspected of being an enemy agent is held by state security. An unsettling presence, though subjected to unimaginable torture he maintains an eerie silence. He escapes---and on the way to freedom, completes a mysterious mission. The prisoner is Dimiter, the American “agent from Hell.”The scene shifts to Jerusalem, focusing on Hadassah Hospital and a cast of engaging, colorful the brooding Christian Arab police detective, Peter Meral; Dr. Moses Mayo, a troubled but humorous neurologist; Samia, an attractive, sharp-tongued nurse; and assorted American and Israeli functionaries and hospital staff. All become enmeshed in a series of baffling, inexplicable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax.Told with unrelenting pace, Dimiter ’s compelling, page-turning narrative is haunted by the search for faith and the truths of the human condition. Dimiter is William Peter Blatty's first full novel since the 1983 publication of Legion .

An incredible haunted house novel from William Peter Blatty, the legendary author of The Exorcist! Disturbing, unsettling, chilling, and laced with a nasty streak of dark humor, Elsewhere is a must-have for all fans of dark fiction! Sure to become a time-honored classic in the genre!

Bestselling author William Peter Blatty warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving nostalgic tale of memory, mystery . . . and miracles.

"For those who have lost a loved one to that liar and fraud named Death."So reads the dedication of William Peter Blatty's Finding Peter, a deeply moving memoir that tests the bounds of grief, love, and the soul. Blatty, the bestselling author and Oscar Award–winning screenwriter of The Exorcist, lived a charmed life among the elite stars of Hollywood.His son Peter, born over a decade after The Exorcist, grew from an apple-cheeked boy into an "imposing young man with a quick, warm smile." But when Peter died very suddenly from a rare disorder, Blatty's world turned upside down.As he and his wife struggled through their unrelenting grief, a series of strange and supernatural events began occurring—and Blatty became convinced that Peter was sending messages from the afterlife.A true and unabashedly personal story, Finding Peter will shake the most cynical of readers—and it will remind those in grief that our loved ones do truly live on.

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This is Blatty's story of his youth in Manhattan, and of his Lebanese mother who became a single parent with five children in the 1930s. 2 cassettes.

Coming from the Academy award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty's newest creation is no demon from beyond, but a mere mortal Hollywood screenwriter caught in his own private hell. A scathing modern fable that chronicles the descent of an acclaimed auteur to a rung above has-been rings startlingly, wickedly true.Jason Hazzard was once known as a serious heavyweight in Hollywood, respected for his intellect and skill with a pen. Now a victim of a series of flops, he finds himself best known for being the husband of his glamorous, successful wife, a woman with the a point name of Sprightly God. Like Robert Altman's film The Player, Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing wittily, deliciously exposes a bizarre world, its moguls, its players, as Blatty weaves the story of Hazzard's attempts to turn his bummed life and career around.Drawing on - but of course not replicating - his own experiences in Hollywood during the writing and filming of such acclaimed movies as The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Blatty takes no prisoners in this realistic fable of towering ambition, cross and double-cross, and the rule of the rubber fist in the iron glove.

An authorized account of how William Peter Blatty came to write both the novel and the screenplay of The Exorcist. Excited by an article he read as a student, Blatty describes the work he put into researching his novel and the frustrations he encountered in turning the book into the screenplay. Blatty's fascination with the subject was born out of an interest in showing that the existence of God, in contemporary America, could be proved, as he says, If there were demons, then perhaps there were angels and probably God and a life everlasting. His research eventually led him to tracking down priests who had participated in actual exorcisms. In doing so, Batty gathered enough evidence to write a novel that incorporated many of his factual findings.

William Peter Blatty, who later wrote novel "The Exorcist" as well as the screenplay for the movie of the same title, served in the United States Information Agency in Lebanon. This book describes his childhood and life through his service overseas for USIA.

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A novel about the spy who lost his cloak, forgot his dagger, and should have come in from the cold. "Wrong Way" Goldfarb. Mrs. Goldfarb's son wanted to be the first Jewish cowboy but blew it. Wanted to spy on the Russians, but landed instead in Fawzi Arabia. As the US searches for the missing agent, Goldfarb... is stoking a fire that threatens to melt the cold war and flood the world with rollicking laughter.

Edição especial reunindo dois livros clássicos de William Peter Blatty: O exorcista e A nona configuraçãoO exorcistaO mal toma várias formas. E a li­teratura e o cinema parecem se desafiar a criar inúmeras perso­nificações desse mal. Seja com monstros, formas deformadas de nós mesmos, ou demônios, a indústria do entretenimento sempre foi bem-sucedida em representar a essência do nosso lado mais reprovável. O exorcista, no entanto, conseguiu ultra­passar esse limite.Inspirado em uma matéria sobre o exor­cismo de um garoto de 14 anos, o escritor William Peter Blatty publicou em 1971 a perturbadora história de Chris Mac­Neil, uma atriz e mãe que está filmando em Georgetown e sofre com as inespera­das mudanças de comportamento de sua filha de 11 anos, Regan. Quando a ciência não consegue descobrir o que há de errado com a menina e uma nova personalidade demoníaca parece vir à tona, Chris busca a ajuda da Igreja no que parece ser um raro caso de possessão demoníaca. Cabe a Da­mien Karras, um padre da universidade de Georgetown, salvar a alma de Regan, en­quanto tenta restabelecer sua fé, abalada desde a morte de sua mãe.Em O exorcista, Blatty conseguiu dar ao demônio a sua face mais revoltante: a cor­rupção da alma de uma criança. A jovem Regan é, ao mesmo tempo, o mal e sua vítima. Ela recebe a pena e a revolta dos leitores e espectadores em doses equiva­lentes e, mesmo quarenta anos depois, seu sofrimento e o abismo entre o que ela era e o que se torna continuam nos atormentan­do a cada página, a cada cena. Até, enfim, descobrirmos que não se trata apenas de uma simples história sobre o bem contra o mal. Ou sobre Deus contra o demônio. Mas sobre a renovação da fé.William Peter Blatty é escritor e ro­teirista norte-americano. Sua obra-pri­ma, O exorcista, um dos romances mais polêmicos já escritos, tornou-se um fe­nômeno literário: ficou 57 semanas na lista de best-sellers do New York Times, 17 como número um.O autor também foi o responsável pelo roteiro da adaptação para o cinema de 1973, pelo qual ganhou um Oscar. O filme também conquistou dez indicações ao prêmio, inclusive de melhor filme, algo inédito para uma obra de terror.

The ghost of William Shakespeare comes back to present day and dictates into a tape recorder to prove that he did, indeed, write his own plays.

Viva Las Vegas. How naïve could I be? My comedic premise was that Elvis was hired as a Vegas casino lounge act because the booker was certain he was so loud and annoying he would drive the gamblers out of the lounge and to the tables. The “Colonel” was not amused.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was written in 1968 for Kirk Douglas who was to play McMurphy. I met with Ken Kesey and crafted the script to be as faithful to the novel as I could possibly make it, which was not the case with the film made years later with Jack Nicholson. That this script with Kirk in the lead wasn’t made is perhaps the biggest heartbreak of my literary career.Mastermind was a spec script with the lead character emulating my Inspector Clouseau from A Shot in the Dark, the second film in The Pink Panther series. The key to the fun with Clouseau was his sensitive sense of dignity, so I created Japanese Inspector of Police Hoku Fat with that same essence in mind. The new head of ABC Films and his assistant met with me in my office at Warner Brothers to tell me — are you sitting down? — that “Inspector Clouseau isn’t good enough anymore. You need a serious theme. We suggest Youth versus Age.” With rewrite money and a three month stay in Tokyo where the film would be shot on the line, I replied that I “couldn’t be a party to the destruction of my material.” I was fired. Worse befell ABC Films: the rewritten screenplay to this day can only be seen on Kuwaiti Airways.Handcarved Coffins is based on a vaguely plotted, unfinished novella by Truman Capote with Michael Cimino set to direct. I gave it a plot but Michael wasn’t satisfied and my screenplay languishes somewhere in the ether just above Laurel Canyon.Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing is entirely based on my novel of the same name and is built around the making of a film very much like The Exorcist. I think of both the novel and the screenplay as “A Christmas Carol for Hollywood.”