Books by William Peter Blatty
” It was inspired by a real exorcism. It starts with a young girl playing with a Ouija board. It’s kind of friendly, ‘Oh, haha! It’s a game. It’s not real.’ And then things get real…At first, the book didn’t do so well. It took a while. Then the film came out, and that was it.” Read more...
The Best 20th-Century American Horror Books
V. Castro, Novelist
Interviews where books by William Peter Blatty were recommended
The Best 20th-Century American Horror Books, recommended by V. Castro
Horror is entertaining, but also a great way of shining a light on painful subjects people don’t want to talk about, says Mexican American horror writer V. Castro. As American horror has opened up to a much greater diversity of writers, she talks us through some of the classics—books that continue to inspire and form the bedrock of the genre.
