Nat Segaloff’s “The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear” has some ideas. His history begins with novelist William Peter Blatty. Born in New York, Blatty was the youngest in a large Lebanese ...

The Exorcist III might've done better financially if director William Peter Blatty had gotten his way when it came to a ...

Based on the eponymous novel by William Peter Blatty, 1973's The Exorcist delivered the most frightening cinematic experiences moviegoers had ever seen up to that point, and has rarely been matched in ...

Review. The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear. By Nat Segaloff Citadel: 352 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support ...

And more tidbits from Nat Segaloff’s ‘The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear,’ which charts the afterlife of the scariest movie ever made.

Nat Segaloff's 'The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear' marks the anniversary of a classic by harking back to how real the horror felt to audiences.

The audience reaction to the horror film "The Exorcist" was so extreme, as author Nat Segaloff describes in his new book, "The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear," it could have called for its own ...

The Exorcist Believer raises the stakes on the premise of the original film by having not one but two young girls possessed by a devilish demon.However, as we break down in our official review of ...

Scott McLemee reviews Marlena Williams’s Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist. Fifty years ago, Ellen Burstyn played the mother of the possessed girl in The Exorcist—a ...

Exorcist: Believer brings Chris back decades after her ordeal with the demon, and the publication of her book documenting the event. The film reveals that Chris has become something of an expert ...

The first installment, also called “The Exorcist,” opens this year, with ... BOOK: ‘The Exorcist’ and its terrifying 50-year legacy Skip to main content ...