William Peter Blatty
1) Crazy
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Joey El Bueno spends his entire life trying to figure out Jane Bent, from their first meeting in New York in 1941 when Joey was just a smart-aleck kid at St. Stephen's school and Jane was a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails.
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A New York Times Bestseller!
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...
3) Der Exorzist
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Das unvergessene Meisterwerk ? die Jubiläumsausgabe! Die Schauspielerin Chris Macneil ist zunächst verwundert, als ihre kleine Tochter Regan von ihrem imaginären Freund spricht, den sie Captain Howdy nennt. Doch dann beginnt Regan, sich zu
verändern; und wenig später ist sie eine gequälte, dämonische Kreatur. Etwas hat von ihr Besitz ergriffen ... Die Jesuiten Damien Karras und Joseph Dyer wollen ihre Seele vor dem ultimativen Bösen retten...
4) Elsewhere
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Elsewhere is an incredible haunted house novel by William Peter Blatty, the legendary author of The Exorcist. Disturbing, unsettling, chilling, and laced with a nasty streak of dark humor. This is a must-have for all fans of dark fiction and sure to become a time-honored classic in the genre.
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If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty's Own Story of The Exorcist is the New York Times bestselling author's memoir on how he came to write his most famous novel and subsequent Academy Award-winning screenplay adaptation.
While a junior at the Jesuitical Georgetown University in Washington D.C. in 1949, Blatty read an article in the Washington Post about the exorcism of a young boy in Maryland. This chronicled ritual...
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I'll Tell Them I Remember You is New York Times bestselling author William Peter Blatty's memoir about being raised by his single Lebanese mother struggling to make ends meet in 1930s Manhattan.
In this heartfelt and humorous autobiography, Blatty shares what it was like growing up with a strong-willed and opinionated mother who did anything and everything to keep her five children fed and sheltered no matter how strange or unusual. Her spirit and...
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Before William Peter Blatty was the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist, he penned a series of comic articles for The Saturday Evening Post about his experiences in the Middle East.
Which Way to Mecca, Jack?: From Brooklyn to Beirut: The Adventures of an American Sheik is his hilarious, semi-autobiographical story, based on the Post articles, originally inspired by his two-year stint in Lebanon working for the United States Information...
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Blatty's tale concerns John "Wrong-Way" Goldfarb, a former college football star who once ran 95-yards for a touchdown in the wrong direction. Now a U-2 pilot, his plane malfunctions and crashes in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia. The country's leader threatens to turn him over to the Soviets unless he agrees to coach a football team.
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In William Peter Blatty on The Exorcist: From Novel to Film, the New York Times bestselling author reveals the real-life incidents that inspired his famous novel and how it evolved into the groundbreaking Academy Award-winning screenplay of the 1973 groundbreaking William Friedkin film.
Featuring the original, controversial ending of the novel and both the first draft of the screenplay and the shooting script, Blatty presents his behind-the-scenes...
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From William Peter Blatty, the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist, comes his dark comic novel about military madness, Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane.
After a nervous breakdown during a moon launch, astronaut Billy Cutshaw was committed to a military asylum and placed under the care of Colonel Hudson Kane. During their therapy sessions, Kane finds himself cross-examined about his beliefs on good and evil, forcing him to face the personal...
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Harper
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2021
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Originally published in 1971, The Exorcist remains one of the most controversial novels ever written and went on to become a literary phenomenon. 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
...12) The exorcist
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Warner Home Video
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2010
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When the devil seems to possess a young girl and modern medicine fails to heal her, a courageous priest performs the ancient ritual of exorcism.
13) Exorcist III
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Lt. Kinderman and Father Dyer cheer each other up on the anniversary of the death of their mutual friend, Father Damien Karras, by going to see "It's a Wonderful Life" at the local theater in Georgetown, near Washington D.C. But there's no cheering Kinderman while a particularly cruel and gruesome serial killer is at large. His murders, which involve torture, decapitation and the desecration of religious icons, is bad enough; but they also resemble...
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William Peter Blatty's intended vision for The Exorcist III comes to life in this alternate version: Legion. Combining elements of a detective story and a theological puzzle, Legion follows police lieutenant - and close friend of Father Damien Karras - William Kinderman (George C. Scott) investigating a series of gruesome religious murders.
15) Darling Lili
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Julie Andrews made a bid to change her squeaky clean image with this elaborately mounted WW I musical. Lili Smith (Andrews) is a popular British music hall singer who is regarded as a femme fatale and has been known to throw a bit of striptease into her act. However, Lili has a secret: she's actually a German spy, and the uncle she dotes upon is really Von Ruger (Jeremy Kemp), a fellow espionage agent and her contact for the Huns. In hopes of gaining...