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Hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear minor nicks and tears on dustwrapper
In August 1949 a newspaper article caught the eye of William Peter Blatty, then an undergraduate. It described many of the bizarre and harrowing events upon which Blatty would later base his bestselling novel, "The Exorcist", and the film of the same name. 40 years later a priest's diary came to light. It had been hidden in a locked room in a St Louis mental hospital, and turned out to be a detailed account written by one of a team of Jesuits who had carried out a series of exorcisms of the boy at the centre of the case. The ... Read more
In August 1949 a newspaper article caught the eye of William Peter Blatty, then an undergraduate. It described many of the bizarre and harrowing events upon which Blatty would later base his bestselling novel, "The Exorcist", and the film of the same name. 40 years later a priest's diary came to light. It had been hidden in a locked room in a St Louis mental hospital, and turned out to be a detailed account written by one of a team of Jesuits who had carried out a series of exorcisms of the boy at the centre of the case. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Doubleday
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780385404426
SKU
KSS0008882
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
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