Based on the eponymous novel by William Peter Blatty, 1973's The Exorcist delivered the most frightening cinematic ...

William Peter Blatty was one of the many notable people who died in 2017. He was best known for writing The Exorcist and for adapting it for the screen. Horror aficionado Grady Hendrix gives us an ...

William Peter Blatty is not dead ... “I can’t regret ‘The Exorcist,’ ” he says after a moment’s pause for his curtailed comedy career. “It’s done so much for me and for my ...

In 2013, USA TODAY spent the day with "The Exorcist" director William Friedkin and author William Peter Blatty in downtown Washington, where they discussed important sites and inspiration behind ...

his widow, Julie Alicia Blatty, told the Associated Press The man behind The Exorcist, author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, has died at 89. Blatty died Thursday at a hospital near his home ...

“RIP William Peter Blatty, who wrote the great ... “Exorcist” movies (only one of which, “The Exorcist III,” involved Blatty) or a stage version performed in 2012 at the Geffen Playhouse ...

"RIP William Peter Blatty, who wrote the great horror ... subsequent "Exorcist" movies (only one of which, "The Exorcist III," involved Blatty) or a stage version performed in 2012 at the Geffen ...

William Peter Blatty, the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter most famous for landmark horror film "The Exorcist" as well as the director of two films, "The Ninth Configuration" and "The ...

"RIP William Peter Blatty, who wrote the great horror ... subsequent "Exorcist" movies (only one of which, "The Exorcist III," involved Blatty) or a stage version performed in 2012 at the Geffen ...