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The Exorcist (novel)

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The Exorcist is a 1971 novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. [1]

79 relations: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Adam Garcia, Africa, Anna Fleischle, Assyria, Atheism, BBC Radio 4, Bill Kenwright, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Bishop, Brooke Shields, Bryan Dick, Cemetery Dance Publications, Cottage City, Maryland, Damien Karras, Daniel Dunglas Home, Dead Sea Scrolls, Demonic possession, Edward Hughes (exorcist), Ellen Burstyn, English language, Exorcism, Exorcism of Roland Doe, Folha de S.Paulo, Gaynor Macfarlane, Geffen Playhouse, Georgetown University, Gerald Lankester Harding, Hardcover, Harper (publisher), Harry Groener, Heart arrhythmia, Horror fiction, Ian McDiarmid, Iraq, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller (playwright), Jenny Seagrove, Jeremy Caniglia, John Doyle (director), John Pielmeier, Karl Johnson (actor), Kazuo Umezu, Lankester Merrin, Lee J. Cobb, Legion (Blatty novel), Linda Blair, Loudun possessions, Louviers possessions, Lydia Wilson, ..., Manoel Felciano, Mark Opsasnick, Max von Sydow, Mediumship, Out of print, Pazuzu, Peter Bowles, Poltergeist, Priest, Regan MacNeil, Robert Glenister, Saint Louis University, Sean Mathias, Society of Jesus, Spain, Spanish language, Spiritualism, St. Louis University High School, Stephen Bogardus, Teresa Gallagher, The Exorcist, The Exorcist (film), The Exorcist (play), United States, Walter Halloran, William Friedkin, William Peter Blatty, William S. Bowdern, 1971 in literature. Expand index (29 more) »

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Adam Garcia

Adam Gabriel Garcia (born 1 June 1973) is an Australian actor, singer, and dancer.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Anna Fleischle

Anna Fleischle is a theatre designer who has worked in Theatre, Dance and Opera.

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Assyria

Assyria, also called the Assyrian Empire, was a major Semitic speaking Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Bill Kenwright

William Kenwright, CBE (born 4 September 1945) is a British West End theatre producer and film producer.

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England.

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Bishop

A bishop (English derivation from the New Testament of the Christian Bible Greek επίσκοπος, epískopos, "overseer", "guardian") is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

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Brooke Shields

Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and model.

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Bryan Dick

Bryan Dick (born 1 February 1978Birthday: (not the ideal birthday reference – please replace if you can find a better reference)) is an English TV, stage and film actor.

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Cemetery Dance Publications

Cemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense.

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Cottage City, Maryland

Cottage City, officially the Town of Cottage City, is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

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Damien Karras

Father Damien Karras, SJ is a fictional character from the novel The Exorcist, its sequel Legion, one of the main protagonists in The Exorcist and a supporting character in the film adaption of Legion.

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Daniel Dunglas Home

Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume; 20 March 183321 June 1886) was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will.

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Scrolls (also Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish religious, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts found in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea.

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Demonic possession

Demonic possession is believed by some, to be the process by which individuals are possessed by malevolent preternatural beings, commonly referred to as demons or devils.

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Edward Hughes (exorcist)

Father Edward Albert Hughes (August 28, 1918 - October 12, 1980) was a Roman Catholic priest who served as an assistant pastor from June 16, 1948 to June 18, 1960 at St.

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Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress best known for her roles in films of the 1970s, such as The Last Picture Show, The Exorcist, and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Exorcism

Exorcism (from Greek εξορκισμός, exorkismós "binding by oath") is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that are believed to be possessed.

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Exorcism of Roland Doe

In the late 1940s, in the United States, priests of the Roman Catholic Church performed a series of exorcisms on an anonymous boy, documented under the pseudonym "Roland Doe" or "Robbie Mannheim".

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Folha de S.Paulo

Folha de S.Paulo, also known as Folha de São Paulo, or simply Folha (Sheet), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name Folha da Noite and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company.

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Gaynor Macfarlane

Gaynor Macfarlane is a radio drama director and producer for BBC Radio Drama at Pacific Quay, Glasgow.

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Geffen Playhouse

The Geffen Playhouse (or the Geffen) is a not-for-profit theater company founded by Gilbert Cates in 1995.

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Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.

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Gerald Lankester Harding

Gerald Lankester Harding (8 December 1901 – 11 February 1979) was a British archaeologist who was the Director of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan from 1936–1956.

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Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, currently the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins.

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Harry Groener

Harry Groener (born September 10, 1951) is a German-born American actor and dancer, perhaps best known for playing Mayor Wilkins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (seasons 3, 4 and 7).

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Heart arrhythmia

Heart arrhythmia (also known as arrhythmia, dysrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat) is a group of conditions in which the heartbeat is irregular, too fast, or too slow.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Ian McDiarmid

Ian McDiarmid (born 11 August 1944) is an Olivier and Tony award-winning Scottish character actor and director.

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Iraq

Iraq (or; العراق; عێراق), officially known as the Republic of Iraq (جُمُهورية العِراق; کۆماری عێراق), is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west.

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Jack MacGowran

John Joseph "Jack" MacGowran (13 October 1918 – 31 January 1973) was an Irish actor, probably best known for his work with Samuel Beckett.

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Jason Miller (playwright)

Jason Miller (April 22, 1939May 13, 2001) was an American actor and playwright.

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Jenny Seagrove

Jennifer Ann Seagrove (born 4 July 1957) is an English actress.

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Jeremy Caniglia

Jeremy Caniglia (born July 13, 1970) is an American figurative painter and illustrator, primarily in fantasy and horror genres.

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John Doyle (director)

John Doyle (born 1953) is a Scottish stage director of musicals and plays, as well as operas.

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John Pielmeier

John Pielmeier (born February 23, 1949) is an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Karl Johnson (actor)

Karl Johnson (born 1 March 1948) is a Welsh actor, notable for acting on stage, film and television.

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Kazuo Umezu

, (born September 3, 1936 in Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, raised in Gojō, Nara Prefecture) is an author of Japanese horror and other manga, as well as a musician and actor.

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Lankester Merrin

Father Lankester Merrin is a fictional character in the novel The Exorcist (1971), one of the two main protagonists in the 1973 film adaptation, and several sequel films.

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Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby, December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor.

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Legion (Blatty novel)

Legion is a 1983 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty, a sequel to The Exorcist.

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Linda Blair

Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959)Official website for "The Exorcist".

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Loudun possessions

The Loudun possessions was a notorious witchcraft trial in Loudun, France in 1634.

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Louviers possessions

The possessions at Louviers (Normandy, France), similar to those in Aix-en-Provence, occurred at the Louviers Convent in 1647.

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Lydia Wilson

Lydia Wilson (born 1984) is an English actress.

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Manoel Felciano

Manoel Felciano (born November 12, 1974) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter.

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Mark Opsasnick

Mark Opsasnick is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and cultural historian who has authored seven books and more than 70 articles on such subjects as unexplained phenomena, popular culture and rock and roll music.

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Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow, 10 April 1929) is a Swedish actor.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Out of print

Out of print refers to an item, typically a book (see: out-of-print book), but can include any print or visual medium or sound recording, or video recording (DVD or Blu-Ray, for example), that is no longer being published.

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Pazuzu

In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Pazuzu (Akkadian: Dpà.zu.zu; also called Fazuzu or Pazuza) was the king of the demons of the wind, brother of Humbaba and son of the god Hanbi.

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Peter Bowles

Peter Bowles (born 16 October 1936) is an English actor of stage and television.

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Poltergeist

In folklore and parapsychology, a poltergeist (German for "noisy ghost" or "noisy spirit") is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed.

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Priest

A priest or priestess (feminine) is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.

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Regan MacNeil

Regan Teresa MacNeil (born November 11, 1961; adaptations: c. September 1963) is a fictional character from William Peter Blatty's horror novel and film adaptation The Exorcist as a supporting character and its first sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic and the sequel television series, ''The Exorcist'', as one of the main protagonists in season one.

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Robert Glenister

Robert Lewis Glenister (born 11 March 1960 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English actor known for his roles as con man Ash "Three Socks" Morgan in the BBC television series Hustle and Nicholas Blake in the BBC spy drama Spooks.

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Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Roman Catholic four-year research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States and Madrid, Spain.

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Sean Mathias

Sean Gerard Mathias (born 14 March 1956) is a Welsh-born theatre director, film director, writer and actor, known for directing the film Bent and for directing highly acclaimed theatre productions in London, New York City, Cape Town, Los Angeles and Sydney.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Spiritualism

Spiritualism is a new religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.

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St. Louis University High School

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Stephen Bogardus

Stephen Bogardus (born March 11, 1954) is an American actor.

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Teresa Gallagher

Teresa Gallagher (born 23 April 1961) is an American-born British actress, voice actress, and singer.

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The Exorcist

The Exorcist is an American media franchise that originated with William Peter Blatty's 1971 horror novel of the same name and most prominently featured in a 1973 film adapted from the novel, and many subsequent prequels and sequels.

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The Exorcist (film)

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller.

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The Exorcist (play)

The Exorcist is a play by John Pielmeier based on the novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty, and is part of ''The Exorcist'' franchise.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Walter Halloran

Walter H. Halloran SJ (September 21, 1921 – March 1, 2005) was a Catholic priestWashington Post, "Jesuit Priest Walter Halloran," March 9, 2005; p. B06 of the Society of Jesus who, at the age of twenty-six, assisted in the exorcism of Roland Doe, a thirteen-year-old Lutheran boy in Cottage City, Maryland, who was allegedly possessed.

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William Friedkin

William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935)Biskind, p. 200.

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William Peter Blatty

William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation.

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William S. Bowdern

Father William S. Bowdern, S.J. (February 13, 1897 - April 25, 1983) was a Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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1971 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1971.

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Regan MacNeill, The Exorcism of Regan MacNeil, The Exorcist (book), The Possession of Regan MacNeil.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist_(novel)

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