William Peter Blatty's THE EXORCIST
I'm very familiar with the movie but I've never read the book before. So dark, evil and depressing! Pure misery... the intro is concentrated evil:
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Now when [Jesus] stepped ashore, there met him a certain man who for a long time was possessed by a devil.... Many times it had laid hold of him and he was bound with chains.... but he would break the bonds asunder.... And Jesus asked him, saying, "What is thy name?" And he said, Legion...."
Luke 8:27-30
JAMES TORELLO: Jackson was hung up on that meat hook. He was so heavy he bent it. He was on that thing three days before he croaked.
FRANK BUCCIERI (giggling): Jackie, you shoulda seen the guy. Like an elephant, he was, and when Jimmy hit him with that electric prod...
TORELLO (excitedly): He was floppin' around on that hook, Jackie. We tossed water on him to give the prod a better charge, and he's screamin'....
Excerpt from FBI wiretap of Cosa Nostra telphone conversation relating to murder of William Jackson
...There's no other explanation for some of the things the Communists did. Like the priest who had eight nails driven into his skull.... And there were the seven little boys and their teacher. They were praying the Our Father when soliders came upon them. One soldier whipped out his bayonet and sliced off the teacher's tongue. The other took chopsticks and drove them into the ears of the seven little boys. How do you treat cases like that?
Dr. Tom Dooley
Dachau
Auschwitz
Buchenwald
Reading LEGION next!
