William Peter Blatty
1) The exorcist
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Series
Language
English
Description
A Jesuit priest, unable to find plausible explanations for an eleven-year-old's strange behavior, begins to suspect demonic possession.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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...
3) Crazy
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1941 New York, young Joey El Bueno's world is turned upside-down when he meets the enigmatic Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with pigtails who seems to know him better than he knows himself, comes and goes at will, claims to have once levitated six feet off the ground, and seems to only be known by Joey.
5) Dimiter
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
As state security in 1970s Albania tortures a prisoner named Dimiter, known as the American "agent from hell," the staff at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital becomes enmeshed in a series of unexplainable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
""A horror story for all midnights."" — The Boston Globe
Inspired by the shockingly true story of a child's demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty's iconic novel focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C. When sweet Regan's behavior turns sinister, a small group of overwhelmed yet determined individuals take it upon themselves
...Author
Publisher
Donald I. Fine Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A once-respected film director, who fell victim to a series of flops, is hired by a Hollywood studio to direct the film of a bestselling novel. A change in fortune? Alas, a plot to sink him forever by the owner of the studio. He was once married to the director's wife and wants her back.
10) The Exorcist
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Description
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau's attempt to prove the innocence of a voluptuous French maid, the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders, leads him to a nudist colony and the Parisian mansion of a French millionaire.
14) The exorcist
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The frightening and realistic tale of an innocent girl inhabited by a terrifying entity, her mother's frantic resolve to save her, and two priests, one doubt-ridden, the other a rock of faith, joined in battling ultimate evil. The extended director's cut includes over ten minutes of footage deleted before the film's 1973 release.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Merrin, a lapsed Catholic priest is summoned to East Africa in 1949 to retrieve a demonic idol. He discovers a buried church, a vast underground cavern, demonic possession, and a legacy of carnage that preys upon guilt-ridden memories from his parish in Nazi-occupied Holland.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In an experimental government center for troubled Vietnam veterans, the inmates run the asylum. One works on an adaptation of Shakespeare ... for dogs. Another fancies himself a caped superhero. Still others masquerade as frogmen, nurses, nuns, pirates, doctors. Yet Colonel Hudson Kane, the psychiatrist in charge, eyes all with a stoic reserve. Maybe too stoic: there's a mystery here. And its final resolution is like a thunderclap.
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"It's World War II Italy and by-the-book Captain Lionel Cash ([Dick] Shawn) is sent by his general ([Carroll] O'Connor) to take over a troop of misfit soldiers, led by the wily and resourceful Lieutenant Christian ([James] Coburn)"--Container.
