William Peter Blatty (CAS ’50) died yesterday aged 89. William Peter Blatty (CAS ’50), the writer and producer of the 1973 horror film “The Exorcist,” died yesterday at the age of 89, according to the ...

William Peter Blatty, an author whose novel The Exorcist and his later screenplay for the 1973 film about a demonic possession became a phenomenon and stirred fierce public debate about the occult, ...

Lucye Rafferty/The Hoya Georgetown University alum and author of “The Exorcist” William Peter Blatty discusses supernatural phenomena in ICC Auditorium Thursday night. For a man who claims he was ...

Mon, Oct 28 – Thu, Oct 31 Halloween In a 1978 review of John Carpenter’s Halloween, film critic Pauline Kael wrote, “Halloween has a pitiful, amateurish script (by Carpenter and his producer, Debra ...

July 1971 Blatty discussed the idea for his novel with Harold Keen. It was the nation's best selling book then. New FBI Director Kash Patel will also be named acting head of the ATF, official says ...

The Exorcistmight be one of the greatest horror films of all time, but only one other movie in the long-running franchise is even worth watching. Based on the eponymous novel by William Peter Blatty, ...

Author William Peter Blatty, who wrote the best-selling horror novel, "The Exorcist," has died at the age of 89. Blatty died Thursday, according to William Friedkin, who directed the film adaptation ...