Legion (Blatty novel)
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| Author | William Peter Blatty |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
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1983 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 269 (Original Hardcover) |
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| OCLC | 9392479 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3552.L392 L4 1983 |
| Preceded by | The Exorcist |
Legion is a 1983 horror novel by William Peter Blatty, a sequel to The Exorcist. It was adapted into the movie The Exorcist III in 1990, and is part of The Exorcist franchise. Like The Exorcist, it involves demonic possession. The book was the focus of a court case over its exclusion from The New York Times Best Seller list.
Blatty based aspects of the Gemini Killer on the real life Zodiac Killer, who, in a January 1974 letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, had praised the original Exorcist film as "the best satirical comedy that I have ever seen".
The title is derived from The Bible, particularly The Gospel of Luke, which describes Jesus traveling in the land of Gadarenes where he encounters a man possessed by demons:
Or the more common quote on the incident, sometimes called the Gerasene Demoniac, from The Gospel of Mark:
The storyline is a mix of horror and whodunnit, with a police detective, Lieutenant Kinderman, investigating a series of murders that have all the hallmarks of a serial killer who was shot by police (but whose body was never recovered) many years previously. The slayings have a blasphemous theme to them, such as a child crucified and a priest decapitated. Kinderman's investigations lead him to a mental asylum where there are a number of suspects, including a psychiatrist and one of his own patients. There, Kinderman begins to find links between the victims and events in the previous novel, the exorcism of the twelve-year-old girl, Regan.
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