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And so, all those modern movies where creatures twist into abnormal visions of horror - bending, cracking, and popping bones.
Yep, it all originated with The Exorcist.
Not the movie.
The book.

A book disappears off a table.
In any other book, that wouldn’t be much of a foreshadow.
And stop with the window reinforcement already.
I’ve seen the movie!!!!🤣. A dozen times at least!

Blatty’s Father Karras character is simply sublime.

Broad morning sunshine on my back snd still this book gives me chills.

Twisting and knotting up the reader before a big “scene”. Anticipation drags the reader.

Ending line from Chapter 1 (how could you not read this book? It wants you!):

“What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night.”

Excerpt From
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty

Reading it again because it never grows old.
And as a good balance against Stephen King’s The Girl Who Lived Tom Gordon.