William Peter Blatty is not dead ... “I can’t regret ‘The Exorcist,’ ” he says after a moment’s pause for his curtailed comedy career. “It’s done so much for me and for my ...

"RIP William Peter Blatty, who wrote the great horror novel ... a boy committing murder and blaming The Exorcist. The Rev. Billy Graham would allege that the film's very celluloid was evil.

In 2013, USA TODAY spent the day with "The Exorcist" director William Friedkin and author William Peter Blatty in downtown Washington, where they discussed important sites and inspiration behind ...

and yet none have matched the success of William Peter Blatty’s screenplay for the original film, says Segaloff. Today, “The Exorcist” regularly tops any list of the scariest horror movies ...

The Exorcist author and screenplay writer William Peter Blatty, class of 1950, lurked undetected in the audience of 100-plus people, and he followed up afterward. He hoped to publish his master's ...

This article contains The Exorcist: Believer spoilers. For nearly 20 years, author and screenwriter William Peter Blatty hated the ending of The Exorcist (1973) so much that he could barely speak ...

"RIP William Peter Blatty, who wrote the great horror ... subsequent "Exorcist" movies (only one of which, "The Exorcist III," involved Blatty) or a stage version performed in 2012 at the Geffen ...