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Inspirado no caso real do exorcismo de um adolescente, o escritor William Peter Blatty publicou em 1971 a perturbadora história de Chris MacNeil, uma atriz que sofre com inesperadas mudanças no comportamento da filha de 11 anos, Regan. Quando todos os esforços da ciência para descobrir o que há de errado com a menina falham e uma personalidade demoníaca parece vir à tona, Chris busca a ajuda da Igreja para tentar livrar a filha do que parece ser um raro caso de possessão. Cabe a Damien Karras, um padre da Universidade de Georgetown, salvar a alma de Regan.

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty's thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

Des bruits insolites, des meubles qui se déplacent dans la nuit et le comportement de plus en plus mystérieux d'une enfant de douze ans, fille d'une célèbre actrice, que nul médecin, nul psychiatre, ni aucune analyse ne parvient à éclaircir... Lorsque la situation s'aggrave, il ne reste qu'à tenter l'exorcisme.

Die Schauspielerin Chris Macneil ist zunächst verwundert, als ihre kleine Tochter Regan von ihrem imaginären Freund spricht, den sie Captain Howdy nennt. Doch dann beginnt Regan, sich zu verändern; und wenig später ist sie eine gequälte, dämonische Kreatur. Etwas hat von ihr Besitz ergriffen. Die Jesuiten Damien Karras und Joseph Dyer wollen ihre Seele vor dem ultimativen Bösen retten oder ist es dafür schon zu spät?

Die Schauspielerin Chris MacNeil ist zunächst bloß verwundert, als ihre kleine Tochter Regan von einem imaginären Freund spricht, den sie Captain...

Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty’s classic horror novel. Summoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical then horrified. The victim - a 12-year-old girl named Regan - seems to be controlled by a malignant supernatural force that makes her swear, blaspheme, scream in agony and perform appalling acts.

William Peter Blatty, the best-selling author and Oscar Award-winning screenwriter of The Exorcist, lived a charmed life among the elite stars of Hollywood. His son, Peter, born over a decade after The Exorcist, grew from an apple-cheeked boy into an "imposing young man with a quick, warm smile". But when Peter died very suddenly from a rare disorder, Blatty's world turned upside down.

A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation? Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests?

Basada en un hecho real, ocurrido en la década de los cuarenta del siglo pasado, la protagonista es una niña de apenas once años que sufre terribles transformaciones, sobre todo en su comportamiento. Ni médicos ni científicos ni psicólogos son capaces de hallar la causa de tal estado y paulatinamente todo se va decantando hacia la hipótesis de que la niña está poseída por el demonio.

William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-best seller The Exorcist. Now Blatty gives us Dimiter, a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion, it is a story in the grand tradition of Morris West’s The Devil’s Advocate and the Catholic novels of Graham Greene.