New Releases by William Peter Blatty

Klasický hororový román o podivných událostech, k nimž došlo v Marylandu v roce 1949 a které William Peter Blatty zpracoval v díle, jež se později stalo jedním z literárních fenoménů druhé poloviny dvacátého století. Románu Exorcista se od prvního vydání v roce 1971 jen ve Spojených státech prodalo více než třináct milionů výtisků a dočkal se překladu do bezpočtu světových jazyků. Jeho úspěch navíc podtrhla i vřele přijatá hollywoodská adaptace Williama Friedkina, která vstoupila do kin o dva roky později a stala se jedním z nejslavnějších filmových hororů všech dob. O co tedy v příběhu jde? Jsme svědky zvláštního chování dvanáctileté dívky Regan, dcery slavné herečky. V noci se v domě ozývají tajemné zvuky, nábytek se sám od sebe hýbe... a objevují se další a další děsivé jevy, které si nikdo nedokáže vysvětlit. Situace se postupně zhoršuje (pod okny dívčina pokoje je nalezena mrtvola nejlepší přítelkyně její matky), až nakonec zbývá jediná možnost - uchýlit se k exorcismu. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Agora em edição de luxo, a obra de William Peter Blatty, autor do clássico O Exorcista, explora a existência de Deus e do homem em uma jornada elucidante ― e por vezes sarcástica ― ao coração da loucura e aos limites da mente humana nesta narrativa intensa permeada por jogos psicológicos. Escondido em uma mansão gótica no interior de uma floresta, o Centro Dezoito é um hospital psiquiátrico secreto do serviço militar que abriga dezenas de pacientes, a maioria veteranos da Guerra do Vietnã que sucumbriam à insanidade. Porém, o Pentágono desconfia de que eles estejam mentindo para fugirem do combate, e enviam um psiquiatra da Marinha para avaliar os casos pessoalmente: o coronel Kane. Homem de fé e compaixão, ele avalia as obsessões incomuns de cada um dos doentes. Mas, quando o lugar é tomado pelo caos, até Kane terá a sanidade desafiada. Do mesmo autor do best-seller O Exorcista ― que lhe rendeu o Oscar de Melhor Roteiro pela memorável adaptação para o cinema do clássico ―, A nona configuração é um obscuro, desconcertante e intenso livro de suspense psicológico, base para o filme de 1980 ganhador do Globo de Ouro e querido pelos fãs de cinema. Ao traçar questionamentos sobre a existência em um suspense brutal com uma reviravolta imperdível, Blatty reafirma a genialidade de suas narrativas.

L’inspector Kinderman, un dels protagonistes de L’exorcista, enfronta un nou cas que el portarà a traspassar una frontera més enllà de la qual mai no s’havia aventurat. Després d’haver encapçalat la investigació d’un homicidi relacionat amb la possessió demoníaca de la Regan, una nena de dotze anys, l’inspector Kinderman enfronta una sèrie d’assassinats amb una signatura d’allò més blasfema, entre ells, la crucifixió d’un infant i la decapitació d’un sacerdot. Les proves condueixen a l’assassí Gèminis, però és evident que alguna cosa no encaixa, ja que, segons asseguren, l’aterridor assassí va morir més d’una dècada enrere. En el curs de la investigació, en Kinderman acabarà adonant-se que les noves víctimes del Gèminis podrien guardar relació amb l’exorcisme de la petita Regan. William Peter Blatty presentà en Kinderman per primera vegada a L’exorcista, el best-seller que esdevingué la novel·la de terror més cèlebre de tots els temps. A Legió, Blatty dona nova vida a l’inspector posant-lo al capdavant de la persecució d’un assassí tan brutal com esmunyedís, que el portarà a endinsar-se en el món sobrenatural.

L''edició del 50 aniversari de l''obra cabdal de la literatura de terror El pare Damien Karras passa per una profunda crisi de fe després d’haver perdut qui més s’estimava. Quan l’actriu Chris MacNeil recorre a ell desesperada pel comportament erràtic i violent de la seva filla Regan, el pare jesuïta conclou que la nena ha estat posseïda per un esperit diabòlic. Amb l’ajuda del pare Merrin, un exorcista experimentat, en Karras farà tots els possibles per tornar a creure i salvar la Regan d’un destí fatal. Inspirat en el relat d’una possessió demoníaca durant la dècada dels quaranta, William Peter Blatty fou l’artífex d’una de les trames més controvertides que s’han escrit mai. L’obra, amarada d’una cruesa i d’una profanitat sense precedents, ha inquietat i aterrit generacions de lectors. L’exorcista és una història esgarrifosa i addictiva que ha esdevingut la novel·la de terror per excel·lència i ha transformat la cultura popular per sempre. Ara, aquest best-seller número u cobra nova vida, per primera vegada en català, en una edició revisada i ampliada per l’autor. Es tracta, en paraules del mateix Blatty, de «la versió per què m’agradaria que em recordessin». «Un llibre magnífic per fora, i atordidor per dins, editat amb pulcritud, amb tapa dura i una coberta que esborrona de David Rendo. Sense dubte, un dels llibres de l’any. (...) L’exorcista és una novel·la que exalça el poder evocador de la bona literatura, molt recomanable també per a aquells que no són amants del terror.» Les Rades Grises - Raül Maigí «L’exorcista és una obra que ha inquietat i aterrit generacions de lectors. Inspirat en la història real d’una possessió demoníaca durant la dècada del 1940 als Estats Units, Blatty va ser l’artífex d’una trama terroríficament addictiva i de ritme narratiu trepidant que va col·laborar a transformar la cultura popular.» El Punt Avui - Lluís Llort «Una novel·la espectacular. De ritme trepidant, intensa, addictiva... És una història sobrenatural, un relat detectivesc i, al mateix temps, una lliçó moral. Una paràbola contemporània absolutament magnífica.» The London Sunday Express «No deixarà ni un sol lector indiferent. Amb un estil literari brillantment aconseguit, L’exorcista és a les novel·les del gènere el que una equació d’Einstein és a un registre de dades comptables.» New York Times Book Review «Immensament satisfactòria. El lector no podrà deixar anar aquest llibre ni un segon. Digne d’Allan Poe.» Los Angeles Times «L’obra addictiva per excel·lència. Tant Poe com Mary Shelley reconeixerien que Blatty es mou entre el llindar que separa la realitat dels elements sobrenaturals i que tant caracteritza l’obra d’ambdós. Un llibre esgarrifós.» Life «L’exorcista és un llibre replet de personatges inoblidables, una història que desborda intel·ligència i perspicàcia. Qualsevol que es consideri sensat el llegirà amb els llums i la ment ben oberts.» L.A. Magazine ufeff«Una història d’amor magnífica. Tant de bo l’hagués escrita jo.» Ray Bradbury «Emocionant, una meravella.» Newsweek «El suspens només fa que créixer.» Publishers Weekly «Un assoliment impressionant.» London Sunday Express «Em va tenir tota la nit desperta. Un llibre terrorífic .» Cosmopolitan

Manchmal finden die Verdammten keinen Retter, aber der Retter findet die Verdammnis. Tief in den Wäldern der USA verbirgt sich ein altes Herrenhaus, das von der Regierung als militärische Irrenanstalt genutzt wird. Dort sind 27 Insassen untergebracht. Alle Soldaten leiden an einer Geisteskrankheit, die ganz plötzlich ausgebrochen ist. Haben die Männer wirklich den Verstand verloren, oder tun sie nur so? Auf der Suche nach Antworten hat das Pentagon den brillanten Marine-Psychiater Colonel Hudson Kane beauftragt, die gestörten Insassen zu untersuchen. Doch bald stellt Kane fest, dass die größte Herausforderung möglicherweise seine eigenen begrabenen Dämonen der Vergangenheit sind ... Vor dem Mega-Bestseller DER EXORZIST schuf Blatty dieses Meisterwerk! Absurd, psychologisch und voller Philosophie. Ein Trip in das Herz des Wahnsinns. Die Grundlage des gefeierten Films von 1980. Santa Monica Evening Outlook: »Ein metaphysischer Thriller und eine kosmische Liebesgeschichte. Sie haben so etwas noch nie zuvor gelesen.« San Antonio Express: »Ein Werk von außergewöhnlicher Vorstellungskraft.« Associated Press: »Schnallen Sie sich an, bevor Sie dieses Buch öffnen!« DeadEndFollies.com: »Nach Ken Keseys EINER FLOG ÜBER DAS KUCKUCKSNEST vielleicht DER endgültige Irrenroman.« William Peter Blatty (1928 - 2017) war ein US-amerikanischer Autor, Drehbuchautor und Regisseur. Weltweit bekannt wurde er 1971 durch den Roman DER EXORZIST, die Geschichte eines zwölfjährigen Mädchens, das von einem Dämon besessen ist. Die Verfilmung mit Linda Blair in der Hauptrolle von 1973 wurde Kult und für das von ihm geschriebene Drehbuch erhielt Blatty einen Oscar. William Peter Blatty war verheiratet und Vater von sieben Kindern.

Etwas Übernatürliches hat von der zwölfjährigen Regan Besitz ergriffen und verwandelt sie in eine dämonische Kreatur. Da diverse Ärzte keine Erklärung finden, bittet Regans Mutter einen katholischen Priester um Hilfe. Doch alle Bemühungen von Pater Karras scheitern. Deshalb beantragt er bei seiner Kirche den Exorzismus. Der Priester will eine Teufelsaustreibung vornehmen, um das Mädchen zu retten ... Das vom Autor überarbeitete und erweiterte Meisterwerk. Neu übersetzt von Patrick Baumann. Die Verfilmung von 1973 löste weltweite Skandale aus. Schockierte Zuschauer verließen scharenweise die Kinos. Heute gilt der mit drei Oscars ausgezeichnete Film als Klassiker. St. Louis Post-Dispatch: »Man sollte Der Exorzist zweimal lesen. Zuerst um die Spannung und den Schock zu erleben, um beim zweiten Mal die Sprache und den Stil zu genießen ... Ein Erlebnis, das man nicht vergisst.« phantastik-couch.de: »Blatty schuf einen modernen Mythos, der in Sachen Kultfaktor und Langlebigkeit irgendwo zwischen Bram Stokers Dracula und Ira Levins Rosemary''s Baby anzusiedeln ist.«

Blatty se basó, para crear a su protagonista, en un hecho real ocurrido en la década de los cuarenta. Una niña de apenas once años sufre terribles transformaciones, sobre todo en su comportamiento. Ni médicos, ni científicos, ni psicólogos seran capaces de hallar la causa de tal estado y paulatinamente todo ira apuntando hacia la hipótesis de que la niña esta poseída por el demonio. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Blatty was inspired by a true event during the 1940s to create his protagonist. A girl of just eleven years old undergoes terrible changes. Doctors, scientists, and psychologists are all unable to find the cause of her condition. They begin to suggest that she may be possessed by the devil.

If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty''s Own Story of The Exorcist is the New York Times bestselling author''s memoir on how he came to write his most famous novel and subsequent Academy Award-winning screenplay adaptation. While a junior at the Jesuitical Georgetown University in Washington D.C. in 1949, Blatty read an article in the Washington Post about the exorcism of a young boy in Maryland. This chronicled ritual served as the inspiration for the book that became a phenomenon, a film, and a franchise. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Based on his own experiences in tinseltown, Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing is a hilarious satire of Hollywood fame and misfortune from William Peter Blatty, the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist. Once an auteur of renown, Jason Hazard hasn''t directed a film in years, more famous for being the husband of movie star, Spritely God. When he accepts an offer to direct the adaptation of the bestselling novel, The Satanist, all hell breaks loose as Hazard''s deal with the devil to resurrect his career threatens to consume his very soul. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Before William Peter Blatty was the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist, he penned a series of comic articles for The Saturday Evening Post about his experiences in the Middle East. Which Way to Mecca, Jack?: From Brooklyn to Beirut: The Adventures of an American Sheik is his hilarious, semi-autobiographical story, based on the Post articles, originally inspired by his two-year stint in Lebanon working for the United States Information Agency. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

I''ll Tell Them I Remember You is New York Times bestselling author William Peter Blatty''s memoir about being raised by his single Lebanese mother struggling to make ends meet in 1930s Manhattan. In this heartfelt and humorous autobiography, Blatty shares what it was like growing up with a strong-willed and opinionated mother who did anything and everything to keep her five children fed and sheltered no matter how strange or unusual. Her spirit and influence helped shape Blatty as a man, a father, and as the famous author of The Exoricst. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Elsewhere is an incredible haunted house novel by William Peter Blatty, the legendary author of The Exorcist. Disturbing, unsettling, chilling, and laced with a nasty streak of dark humor. This is a must-have for all fans of dark fiction and sure to become a time-honored classic in the genre. "...a witty ghost story of Jamesian complexity." -- The Boston Herald At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A New York Times Bestseller! For those who have lost a loved one to that liar and fraud named Death. So reads the dedication of William Peter Blatty''s Finding Peter, a deeply moving memoir that tests the bounds of grief, love, and the soul. 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 shake the most cynical of readers—and it will remind those in grief that our loved ones do truly live on.

From William Peter Blatty, the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist, comes his dark comic novel about military madness, Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane. After a nervous breakdown during a moon launch, astronaut Billy Cutshaw was committed to a military asylum and placed under the care of Colonel Hudson Kane. During their therapy sessions, Kane finds himself cross-examined about his beliefs on good and evil, forcing him to face the personal demons that have haunted him since his tour in Vietnam. This story was the basis of Blatty''s later expanded novel and the Golden Globe-nominated film adaptation, both titled The Ninth Configuration. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Blatty''s tale concerns John "Wrong-Way" Goldfarb, a former college football star who once ran 95 yards for a touchdown in the wrong direction. Now a U-2 pilot, his plane malfunctions and crashes in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia. The country''s leader threatens to turn him over to the Soviets unless he agrees to coach a football team. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"The basis of an acclaimed 1980 film (also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane ), The Ninth Configuration is a thought-provoking, blackly comic journey into the heart of madness-and the outer limits of belief."--Provided by publisher.

O livro que deu origem ao maior clássico cinematográfico de terror de todos os tempos, agora em edição de luxo com capa dura. Com mais de 13 milhões de exemplares vendidos, a obra de William Peter Blatty mudou a cultura pop para sempre, tornando-se um dos livros favoritos dos fãs de cinema. Quatro décadas após chocar o mundo inteiro, O Exorcista permanece uma metáfora moderna do combate entre o sagrado e o profano, em um dos romances mais macabros já escritos. Inspirado no caso real do exorcismo de um adolescente, o escritor William Peter Blatty publicou em 1971 a perturbadora história de Chris MacNeil, uma atriz que sofre com inesperadas mudanças no comportamento da filha de 11 anos, Regan. Quando todos os esforços da ciência para descobrir o que há de errado com a menina falham e uma personalidade demoníaca parece vir à tona, Chris busca a ajuda da Igreja para tentar livrar a filha do que parece ser um raro caso de possessão. Cabe a Damien Karras, um padre da Universidade de Georgetown, salvar a alma de Regan. Neste livro, Blatty conseguiu dar ao demônio a sua face mais revoltante: a corrupção de uma alma inocente. Um clássico incomparável do terror, O Exorcista não se trata apenas de uma simples história sobre o bem contra o mal, ou sobre Deus contra o Demônio, mas também sobre a renovação da fé.

«Blatty intreccia alla perfezione i due rami gemelli dell’horror psicologico e paranormale». Publishers Weekly «Un romanzo brillante, pauroso, toccante e provocatorio». Chicago Tribune

As state security in 1970s Albania tortures a prisoner named Dimiter, known as the American "agent from hell," the staff at Jerusalem''s Hadassah Hospital becomes enmeshed in a series of unexplainable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax.

Perdu au fin fond de l''Etat totalitaire le plus oppressif et le plus isolé de la planète, l''Albanie de 1973, un homme est détenu prisonnier. Arrêté par hasard, à la faveur d''une enquête de routine, il est soupçonné d''être un espion d''envergure : les autorités déploient toutes les formes de cruauté et de torture pour réussir à lui soutirer des informations. Mais le prisonnier résiste de manière très inhabituelle aux traitements barbares et aux manipulations psychiques : insensible à la douleur, mystérieux sur son identité, il parvient, jusqu''à son évasion finale, à confondre ses ravisseurs. Un an plus tard, à Jérusalem, des événements étranges attirent l''attention des autorités locales et des responsables du renseignement : un enfant de l''hôpital d''Hadassah a guéri comme par miracle, tandis qu''un corps était découvert dans le très sacré tombeau du Christ. Le Dr Moses Mayo, un neurologue plein d''humour, son ami, le sombre détective de police arabo-chrétien, Peter Meral, Samia, une jolie infirmière à la langue acerbe, et un assortiment de fonctionnaires américains et israéliens, vont se trouver pris dans une série de rebondissements et de décès inexplicables. S''agit-il là d''un complot ? Tous les indices semblent converger vers une seule et même personne : Dimiter, surnommé " l''agent de l''enfer ".

Des événements insolites et angoissants se produisent dans la maison de la célèbre actrice Chris MacNeil. Des bruits qui viennent de nulle part, des meubles qui semblent se déplacer dans la nuit. Et la petite Regan, fillette de douze ans, qui change peu à peu mais radicalement de comportement. Sa mère s''inquiète et les médecins, perplexes, sont incapables de comprendre le phénomène. Dédoublement de personnalité ? Hystérie ? Si l''enfant en présente les symptômes comportementaux, aucune preuve clinique ne parvient à prouver ces éventualités. Scanners, radios, analyses multiples. Tout est mis en œuvre pour tenter de percer à jour ce mystère, mais l''énigme demeure insoluble. Les neuro psychiatres ne découvrent rien. Ni lésion cérébrale, ni épilepsie ou schizophrénie. La situation s''aggrave encore lorsque Burke, le meilleur ami de Chris, est retrouvé mort sous la fenêtre de Regan. Pendant ce temps, l''état de la fillette continue d''empirer : lévitation, hyperkinésie, glossolalie, force herculéenne. Jusqu''au moment où un psychiatre suggère l''exorcisme. Un style glacial et angoissant, qui donne des sueurs froides. Des descriptions chocs et des scènes terrifiantes propulsent ce livre et son auteur au rang des maîtres du genre.

Bestselling author William Peter Blatty warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving nostalgic tale of memory, mystery . . . and miracles. 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 Cary 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.

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. This edition, polished and expanded by the author, includes new dialogue, a new character and a chilling new extended scene, provides an unforgettable reading experience that has lost none of its power to shock and continues to thrill and terrify new readers.