All these years later, this book is kind of my exorcism from The Exorcist. Certainly not every film’s anniversary still matters fifty years later. What is it about The Exorcist that has us still ...

Anybody going to see “The Exorcist” would have to bring body and soul, and I wasn’t sure I had enough of either. “What if I just read the book?” I asked. I knew I was home free.

Working together, writers, directors, and performers not only created “The Exorcist,” one of Hollywood ... Blatty decided it was time to turn to books. Years before, while a student at ...

Still, I was careful not to let my parents know that I was now in possession of this Bantam edition with its glossy purple cover ... Exorcist at night, before bed, covertly retrieving the book ...