William Peter Blatty Books in Order

Blatty turns his early life and time in Beirut into a loose, comic memoir full of self-mockery, culture clashes, and tall tales. It shows the funny side of a writer most readers know for much darker work.

A onetime football hero turned U-2 pilot crash-lands in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia. To avoid being handed over to the Soviets, John Goldfarb has to coach the ruler's hopeless football team.

In this slim satire, the ghost of William Shakespeare returns to answer the people who insist he did not write his own plays. Blatty turns a literary argument into a quick, strange, funny monologue.

After astronaut Billy Cutshaw suffers a breakdown during a moon launch, he is sent to a military asylum under Colonel Hudson Kane. What starts as black comedy turns stranger and darker, circling madness, guilt, and faith.

When actress Chris MacNeil's daughter Regan begins changing in terrifying ways, doctors fail and Father Damien Karras is drawn into a battle with something inhuman. Blatty makes the horror land through grief, doubt, and the cost of belief.

Blatty looks back on his New York childhood and on the formidable Lebanese mother who kept the family going through poverty and upheaval. Funny and affectionate, it is a portrait of the woman who shaped his voice and faith.

Part memoir and part making-of record, this book traces the real case that sparked The Exorcist and Blatty's path from novel to screenplay. It also reflects on what changed when the story moved to film.

In an isolated military castle, Colonel Kane tries to treat officers whose breakdowns may be genuine, staged, or something darker. This reworked version of Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane blends mystery, black comedy, and a serious search for meaning.

Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a string of mutilation murders that echo crimes supposedly ended years earlier with the death of the Gemini Killer. What begins as a police procedural turns into a chilling argument about evil, identity, and the supernatural.

A hardheaded realtor gathers a writer, a psychic, and a paranormal expert to spend time in a mansion with a haunted reputation. The ghost hunt soon slips into something sadder and stranger as the house begins revealing its own secrets.

A washed-up director takes a studio job that should save his career and walks into a grotesque Hollywood circus of sabotage, ego, and revenge. Blatty turns movie-business misery into a nasty, playful farce.

In this short memoir, Blatty explains how a 1949 exorcism story stayed with him and slowly became The Exorcist. It is a personal look at faith, inspiration, and the long road from idea to phenomenon.

In 1940s New York, young Joey meets Jane, a strange girl who seems to know too much and appear exactly when he needs her. Blatty blends nostalgia, comedy, and mystery with a small but persistent touch of the uncanny.

A silent prisoner escapes torture in 1970s Albania, and the trail leads to baffling deaths in Jerusalem. Detective Peter Meral follows clues that point toward murder, revenge, and something far harder to explain.

After his son Peter dies suddenly, Blatty writes through grief, memory, and a series of experiences he believed were messages from beyond death. It is part family memoir, part argument that love and personality survive the grave.