The Exorcist III might've done better financially if director William Peter Blatty had gotten his way when it came to a ...

The original Exorcist novel sold poorly upon release, only hitting it big after William Peter Blatty's (the author's) ...

The novel follows Lt. Kinderman, a side character from the original Exorcist novel, who is investigating the deaths. Kinderman begins to link all of these killings slowly back to the exorcism of ...

And more tidbits from Nat Segaloff’s ‘The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear,’ which charts the afterlife of the scariest movie ever made.

William Peter Blatty released The Exorcist novel in 1971, and the narrative follows the same characters and circumstances made famous in the 1973 film adaptation by William Friedkin. 11-year-old ...

As Nat Segaloff reports in his new book, “The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear” ... William Peter Blatty’s novel arrived when the supernatural could still deliver a shock.

The mysterious events, with their glimmerings of a supernatural realm, are described in the latest book by the man behind what may be the 20th century’s most famous horror story. Only this time ...

When the classic movie first screened in 1973, it horrified audiences. It was inspired by a 1949 exorcism in Mt. Rainier that The Washington Post wrote about at the time.

A half-century after the original helped rewrite the rules of horror and launched a thousand imitators, “The Exorcist: Believer” tries picking up that mantle, with the lure of 90-year-old ...

Today, “The Exorcist” regularly tops any list of the scariest horror movies of all time. The screenplay was based on Blatty’s bestselling novel, “The Exorcist,” published in 1971.