Bücher von William Peter Blatty

Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan?' Regan MacNeil: 'In here. 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.

The phenomenal #1 bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture--= the most terrifying and unforgettable horror novel ever written--now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition."A page-turner par excellence. Poe and Mary Shelley would recognize [Blatty] as working in their ambiguous limbo between the natural and the supernatural . . . hair-rising."--Life"Read the book. It's an experience you will never forget."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch Originally published in 1971, The Exorcist was a bestselling literary phenomenon and one of the most frightening--and controversial--novels ever written. Based on true events--a child's demonic possession in the 1940s--it is the story of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, whose sudden disturbing, and often violent, behavior drive her desperate mother, Chris, a famous actress, to eventually seek help from two Catholic priests, men who will risk everything--including their own souls-- to free the girl from an ancient malevolent force possessing her.Purposefully raw and profane, this novel still has the extraordinary ability to shock readers and cause them to forget that it is "just a story."

Etwas Übernatürliches hat von der zwölfjährigen Regan Besitz ergriffen und verwandelt sie in eine dämonische Kreatur. Da diverse Ärzte keine Erklärung finden, bittet Regans Mutter einen katholischen Priester um Hilfe. Doch alle Bemühungen von Pater Karras scheitern. Deshalb beantragt er bei seiner Kirche den Exorzismus. Der Priester will eine Teufelsaustreibung vornehmen, um das Mädchen zu retten ...Das vom Autor überarbeitete und erweiterte Meisterwerk. Neu übersetzt von Patrick Baumann.Die Verfilmung von 1973 löste weltweite Skandale aus. Schockierte Zuschauer verließen scharenweise die Kinos. Heute gilt der mit drei Oscars ausgezeichnete Film als Klassiker.St. Louis Post-Dispatch: »Man sollte Der Exorzist zweimal lesen. Zuerst um die Spannung und den Schock zu erleben, um beim zweiten Mal die Sprache und den Stil zu genießen ... Ein Erlebnis, das man nicht vergisst.«phantastik-couch.de: »Blatty schuf einen modernen Mythos, der in Sachen Kultfaktor und Langlebigkeit irgendwo zwischen Bram Stokers Dracula und Ira Levins Rosemary's Baby anzusiedeln ist.«

William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-bestseller The Exorcist. Now Blatty gives us Dimiter, a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion, it is a novel in the grand tradition of Morris West's The Devil's Advocate and the Catholic novels of Graham Greene.Dimiter opens in the world's most oppressive and isolated totalitarian state: Albania in the 1970s. A prisoner suspected of being an enemy agent is held by state security. An unsettling presence, though subjected to unimaginable torture he maintains an eerie silence. He escapes---and on the way to freedom, completes a mysterious mission. The prisoner is Dimiter, the American "agent from Hell."The scene shifts to Jerusalem, focusing on Hadassah Hospital and a cast of engaging, colorful characters: the brooding Christian Arab police detective, Peter Meral; Dr. Moses Mayo, a troubled but humorous neurologist; Samia, an attractive, sharp-tongued nurse; and assorted American and Israeli functionaries and hospital staff. All become enmeshed in a series of baffling, inexplicable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax.Told with unrelenting pace, Dimiter's compelling, page-turning narrative is haunted by the search for faith and the truths of the human condition. Dimiter is William Peter Blatty's first full novel since the 1983 publication of Legion.