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Si la medicina y la psiquiatría no ayudan, ¿puede el exorcismo ser la respuesta?
Ha llegado el momento para el implacable rito que enfrenta a exorcista y demonio en duelo mortal.
El exorcista es una de las obras de ficción más sobrecogedoras y terroríficas jamás escritas.
Basada en un hecho real, ocurrido en la década de los cuarenta del siglo pasado, la protagonista es una niña de apenas once años que sufre terribles transformaciones, sobre todo en su comportamiento. Ni médicos ni científicos ni psicólogos son capaces de hallar la causa de tal estado y paulatinamente todo se va decantando hacia la hipótesis de que la niña está poseída por el demonio.
Publicada en 1971, El exorcista es una de las novelas más sobrecogedoras y terroríficas jamás escritas, y ha dado origen a una saga cinematográfica y una seriede televisión de culto.
Che cosa succede alla piccola Regan, trasformatasi in un mostro blasfemo che urla oscenità e frasi sconnesse? Sua madre, la famosa diva del cinema Chris MacNeil, non riesce a capirlo. Né ci riescono i medici e gli psichiatri, né la polizia. Forse solo un esorcista può dare una risposta. Ma la Chiesa impone cautela, esige prove, chiede tempo. Intanto la casa risuona di colpi, i mobili si spostano da soli, un uomo muore con il collo spezzato, il fragile corpo di Regan sembra cedere alla tempesta che lo sconquassa. E lo scontro tra l'uomo di Dio e gli spiriti del Male sembra ormai inevitabile.
Scritto a partire dallo studio di un caso di possessione diabolica e pubblicato nel 1971, il romanzo richiese all'autore, William Peter Blatty, una lunga e accurata ricerca sull'argomento: 'Penso che il mio inconscio, una volta accumulato tutto il materiale e la fatica necessari, abbia creato la maggior parte della trama, elargendone poco alla volta delle porzioni alla mia coscienza razionale'. Il libro suscitò un certo scandalo nella critica ma ebbe da subito un impressionante successo di vendite. Considerato uno dei migliori romanzi horror mai scritti, L'esorcista, da cui è stato tratto il film horror per antonomasia, ha venduto circa sei milioni di copie ed è stato tradotto in diciotto lingue.
A 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 mental patient, locked in silent isolation?
Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests? Is there a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years ago-and supposedly ended with the death of the killer?
Legion is a novel of breathtaking energy and suspense. But more than this, it is an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing questions of the human condition.
The answers are revealed in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of The Exorcist-William Peter Blatty.
Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty's classic horror novelWhen a radio play is this good, the devil really is in the details' Radio TimesSummoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical, then horrified. The victim a 12-year-old girl named Regan seems to be controlled by a malign supernatural force that makes her swear, blaspheme, scream in agony and perform appalling acts. Attempting to find a rational explanation for the girl's behaviour, Karras tries to talk to Regan, only to find himself locking horns with the demon inside her head. Its many voices mock him, tormenting him with his weakness, doubts and buried guilt. With his faith in God and humanity tested to the limit, Karras turns to the ultimate solution: exorcism The film version of The Exorcist is widely considered to be one of the most terrifying movies ever made. This new, full-cast radio drama is just as chilling, suspenseful and shocking, while also retaining the depth and psychological complexity of Blatty's original novel. Adapted by Sony Award-winning dramatist Robert Forrest, it stars Robert Glenister as Karras, Alexandra Mathie as the Demon and Ian McDiarmid as Merrin.
William Peter Blatty, the bestselling author and Oscar Award-winning screenwriter of The Exorcist, lived a charmed life among the elite stars of Hollywood. His son Peter, born over a decade after The Exorcist, grew from an apple-cheeked boy into an "imposing young man with a quick, warm smile." But when Peter died very suddenly from a rare disorder, Blatty's world turned upside down.
As he and his wife struggled through their unrelenting grief, a series of strange and supernatural events began occurring, and Blatty became convinced that Peter was sending messages from the afterlife.
A true and unabashedly personal story, Finding Peter will remind those in grief that our loved ones truly do live on.
Das unvergessene Meisterwerk. Die Schauspielerin Chris Macneil ist zunächst verwundert, als ihre kleine Tochter Regan von ihrem imaginären Freund spricht, den sie Captain Howdy nennt. Doch dann beginnt Regan, sich zu verändern; und wenig später ist sie eine gequälte, dämonische Kreatur. Etwas hat von ihr Besitz ergriffen ... Die Jesuiten Damien Karras und Joseph Dyer wollen ihre Seele vor dem ultimativen Bösen retten ? oder ist es dafür schon zu spät? Ein dunkles Panoptikum von Angst und Gewalt - großartig interpretiertvon dem Kult-Sprecher Joachim Kerzel
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. 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. Freshly polished and expanded by the author, including new dialogue, a new character and a chilling new extended scene, this unique fortieth anniversary edition provides an unforgettable reading experience that has lost none of its power to shock - and is poised to terrify a new generation of readers.
Das unvergessene Meisterwerk ? die Jubiläumsausgabe! Die Schauspielerin Chris Macneil ist zunächst verwundert, als ihre kleine Tochter Regan von ihrem imaginären Freund spricht, den sie Captain Howdy nennt. Doch dann beginnt Regan, sich zu
verändern; und wenig später ist sie eine gequälte, dämonische Kreatur. Etwas hat von ihr Besitz ergriffen ... Die Jesuiten Damien Karras und Joseph Dyer wollen ihre Seele vor dem ultimativen Bösen retten ? oder ist es dafür schon zu spät?
Ein dunkles Panoptikum von Angst und Gewalt - großartig interpretiertvon dem Kult-Sprecher Joachim Kerzel
Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty's thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.
"It's okay to love me, Joey. But don't be in love with me."
New York, 1941. Joey El Bueno is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's School on East 28th Street, when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails and yellow smiley-face barrettes, who seems to know him better than he knows himself. A magical afternoon at the movies, watching Carey Grant in Gunga Din, is the beginning of a puzzling friendship that soon leaves Joey baffled and bewildered.
Jane is like nobody he has ever met. She comes and goes at will, nobody else seems to have heard of her, and is it true that she once levitated six feet off the ground at the refreshment counter of the old Superior movie house on Third Avenue? Joey, an avid reader of pulp magazines and comic books, is no stranger to amazing stories, but Jane is a bewitching enigma that keeps him guessing for the rest of his life—until, finally, it all makes sense.
Rich with the warmth of a bygone era, Crazy captures both the giddy craziness of youth and the sublime possibilities of existence.
