The Exorcist

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The phenomenal #1 bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture= the most terrifying and unforgettable horror novel ever writtennow 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 frighteningand controversialnovels ever written. Based on true eventsa childs demonic possession in the 1940sit 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 everythingincluding 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.