"Yes, that's right," Karras answered "I'm your friend and I'd like to help you." "Well, we've nothing to fear from you at all." they sent you!" she continued as if pleased. "Well, well, well," she gloated sardonically and hairs prickled up on the back of Karras's neck at a voice that was deep and thick with menace and power. Regan's eyes gleamed fiercely, unblinking, as a yellowish saliva dribbled down from a corner of her mouth to her chin, to her lips stretch taut into a feral grin of bow-mouthed mockery. " 'There is this novel I have been thinking about writing since my junior year at and what else have I got to do now? I'll do it.' " "I said, 'What am I going to do?' " Blatty remembers. Then, in the summer of 1969, the comedy job market dried up. The result is a 40th-anniversary edition that's just as terrifying as the original.īlatty tells NPR's Scott Simon that before he started writing The Exorcist, he'd been working as a comic novelist, and screenplay writer for comedian Peter Sellers. When the book's film adaptation came out two years later, fans waited in lines that stretched around city blocks to catch the first screenings some even tried using battering rams to force their way into theaters.įorty years later, Blatty has revised and polished his landmark novel, even adding a whole new character. Readers were drawn to the novel's profane subject matter, making it a best-seller. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Exorcist Author William Peter Blatty
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