The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty, 1971
A priest-psychiatrist is asked to explain a child's illness that medicine cannot. A horror novel less about the devil than about belief, guilt and the cost of certainty.
William Peter Blatty
Blatty first heard about the 1949 Mount Rainier exorcism as a Georgetown student; that case, and a Jesuit he knew there, seeded the novel.
Feels like faith, dread and unease.
Some people are cold in a way no weather can fix.
The blaze of sun wrung pops of sweat from the old man’s brow, yet he cupped his hands around the glass of hot sweet tea as if to warm them. Books by William Peter Blatty
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