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""A horror story for all midnights."" —The Boston Globe “Read the book. It's an experience you will never forget.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch The phenomenal #1 bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture, which remains the most terrifying and unforgettable horror novel ever...

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?

Des bruits insolites, des meubles qui se déplacent dans la nuit et le comportement de plus en plus mystérieux d'une enfant de douze ans, fille d'une célèbre actrice, que nul médecin, nul psychiatre, ni aucune analyse ne parvient à éclaircir... Lorsque la situation s'aggrave, il ne reste qu'à tenter l'exorcisme.

A brand new novel of supernatural suspense from the author of The Exorcist...

Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty’s classic horror novel. Summoned 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 malignant supernatural force that makes her swear, blaspheme, scream in agony and perform appalling acts.

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.

William Peter Blatty, the best-selling 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.

Die Schauspielerin Chris MacNeil ist zunächst bloß verwundert, als ihre kleine Tochter Regan von einem imaginären Freund spricht, den sie Captain...

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?

"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.