{"title":"Books by William Peter Blatty","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780552166775","title":"The Exorcist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFather Damien Karras: \u003ci\u003e'Where is Regan?' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRegan MacNeil: \u003ci\u003e'In here. With us.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in the attic. In the child's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. At first, easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes begin to appear in eleven-year-old Regan. Medical tests fail to shed any light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded her body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFather Damien Karras, a Jesuit priest, is called in. Is it possible that a demonic presence has possessed the child? Exorcism seems to be the only answer...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1971, \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist \u003c\/i\u003ebecame a literary phenomenon and inspired one of the most shocking films ever made. This edition, polished and expanded by the author, includes new dialogue, a new character and a chilling new extended scene, provides an unforgettable reading experience that has lost none of its power to shock and continues to thrill and terrify new readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291145843061,"sku":"9780552166775","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780552166775_e6546c1c-e34d-497c-828d-da3ab5991052.jpg?v=1786014029"},{"product_id":"9780571202393","title":"The Exorcist","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorgetown, Washington D.C., 1973.  Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan.  The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation.  Medical science is baffled by Regan's plight and, in her increasing despair, Chris turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan's distorted fetures and speech.  On Karras's recommendation, the Church summons Father Merrin, a specialist in the exorcism of demons . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Peter Blatty scripted this version of his own best-selling novel for director William Friedkin, and was rewarded with an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay of 1973.  This publication also includes the texts of the film's legendary 'lost scenes' and excised dialogue which shed additional light on \u003cb\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/b\u003e's profound darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292445520245,"sku":"9780571202393","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571202393_9ac897c8-0764-49ba-bd3e-ce491c182d20.jpg?v=1786013496"},{"product_id":"9780857508171","title":"The Exorcist","description":"CELEBRATE 55 YEARS OF ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING NOVELS EVER WRITTEN WITH THIS STUNNING SPECIAL EDITION HARDBACK.   This anniversary edition of William Peter Blatty's horror masterpiece features striking foiled boards, illustrated endpapers and a foreword by bestselling horror author GRADY HENDRIX, making it the ultimate edition for fans and collectors.   Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan?'Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us.'The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in the attic. In the child's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. At first, easy explanations are offered.   Then frightening changes begin to appear in eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil. Medical tests fail to shed any light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded her body.   Father Damien Karras, a Jesuit priest, is called in. Is it possible that a demonic presence has possessed the child? Exorcism seems to be the only answer...   First published in 1971, The Exorcist became a literary phenomenon and inspired one of the most shocking films ever made.   This special 55th-anniversary hardback presents Blatty's preferred version of the novel, polished and expanded by the author to include new dialogue, a new character and a chilling extended scene. More than half a century after its original publication, The Exorcist has lost none of its power to shock, thrill and terrify.   A landmark of horror. A true modern classic. Now in a special edition worthy of its legacy.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368232628597,"sku":"9780857508171","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857508171_2b6428e7-bede-4d8b-803e-d91b4d9d356b.jpg?v=1786032773"},{"product_id":"legion-1","title":"Legion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a master of the genre, William Peter Blatty, comes \u003ci\u003eLegion\u003c\/i\u003e, the harrowing sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist \u003c\/i\u003eand the inspiration to the movie \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist III\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious patient, locked in silent isolation in the psychiatric ward?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface, with each victim suffering the same dreadful mutilations. Kinderman must confront the creeping suspicion that there’s a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place more than a decade ago?and supposedly ended with the death of the Gemini Killer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegion\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic novel of breathtaking terror, an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind, and has been hailed as being “infinitely more suspenseful than \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e.” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503763235189,"sku":"9781250360960","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781250360960.jpg?v=1786867474"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-william-peter-blatty.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}