The Exorcist - The 40th Anniversary Edition

For the special 40th Anniversary Edition ofThe Exorcist, William Peter Blatty has returned to the manuscript, reworking portions of the book that never satisfied him. Due to financial constraints and a pressing workload at the time of the original publication, he was forced to forego a desired revision.

“For most of these past forty years I have rued not having done a thorough second draft and careful polish of the dialogue and prose,” Blatty says. “But now, like an answer to a prayer, this fortieth anniversary edition has given me not only the opportunity to do that second draft, but to do it at a time in my life—I am 83—when it might not be totally unreasonable to hope that my abilities, such as they are, have at least somewhat improved, and for all of this I say, Deo gratias!”

Among the changes, Blatty has added a chilling scene introducing the unsettling minor character of a Jesuit psychiatrist.

 Limited Edition: 374 signed copies bound in a deluxe material with full-color illustrations, a full-color dust jacket, and housed in a custom-made slipcase