The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
Legion, by William Peter Blatty
On The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
The Ninth Configuration, by William Peter Blatty
The Omen, by David Seltzer
Damien: Omen II, by Joseph Howard
Omen: The Final Conflict, by Gordon McGill
The Final Conclave, by Malachi Martin
The Seventies was a devil-haunted time in popular culture. If "God Is Dead" was a dreaded axiom hanging around in the Zeitgeist, Satan and his works seemed all too manifest to the mind of the common man, and if the idea of God as our savior was rejected, that left us particularly guilty and subject to the power of the devil.
William Peter Blatty, a life-long Roman Catholic, gave his work a touch more gravitas and religious thought, though his later novels after The Exorcist were more theologically speculative. The Omen series were simple novelizations of popular entertainments with an apocalyptic theme, not unlike (an influence perhaps) the more recent Left Behind books. Malachi Martin (author of Hostage to the Devil) I lump in here with the others because the theme reminds me that I once had his book The Final Conclave, about his thoughts that the modern Church was all-too-ready to make accomodations with Communist regimes to assure its survival. Ridiculous, no?
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