American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty

American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty (2008) is an anthology of essays studying all of William Peter Blatty's novels, from Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1959) to Elsewhere (2009).^[1][2]

Contents

• "So Much Mystery...": The Fiction of William Peter Blatty by Scott D. Briggs
• Lebanon, the Fightin' Irish, and Billy Shakespeare: The Comic Novels of William Peter Blatty by John Goodrich
• Fear of the Assimilation of the Foreign Other in The Exorcist by Philip L. Simpson
• A Devil for the Day: William Peter Blatty, Ira Levin, and the Revision of the Satanic by John Langan
• The Horror of The Exorcist: Its Presentation and Confrontation by J. W. Ocker
• Some Thoughts on The Ninth Configuration by Henrik Sandbeck Harksen
• Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane! and The Ninth Configuration: A Comparison by Ryan Streat
• "Foot, You Are Wise!": The Apologetic Structure of The Ninth Configuration by Geoffrey Reiter
• The Exorcist and Legion: Religious Horrors by Tim Kroenert
• The Devilish God: William Peter Blatty's Legion and the Problem of Evil by James Doig
• Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable: The Theo-Illogical, Semi-Autobiographical Epic Film That Never Was by Michael Garrett
• It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings: William Peter Blatty's
  Elsewhere
  and the Haunted House Formula by Davide Mana
• The Exegesis of William Peter Blatty:
  Catholicism, Exorcism & Pazuzu
  by Benjamin Szumskyj