A review by a_monkey
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

4.0

One of the best horrors I have read — a story that truly understands the mechanisms and purposes and uses of the genre. It’s lurid and disturbing and transgressively gross but with a sobriety that’s very rare and hard to get right without just being lifeless; and there is much life and beauty here, though without the schmaltz with which those elements are usually delivered in this genre. A real classic.