American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty

American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty (2008) is an anthology of essays studying all of William Peter Blatty's novels, from Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1959) to Elsewhere (2009).

Contents

 * "So Much Mystery...": The Fiction of William Peter Blatty by Scott D. Briggs
 * Lebanon, the Fightin' Irish, and Billy Shakespeare: The Comic Novels of William Peter Blatty by John Goodrich
 * Fear of the Assimilation of the Foreign Other in The Exorcist by Philip L. Simpson
 * A Devil for the Day: William Peter Blatty, Ira Levin, and the Revision of the Satanic by John Langan
 * The Horror of The Exorcist: Its Presentation and Confrontation by J. W. Ocker
 * Some Thoughts on The Ninth Configuration by Henrik Sandbeck Harksen
 * Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane! and The Ninth Configuration: A Comparison by Ryan Streat
 * "Foot, You Are Wise!": The Apologetic Structure of The Ninth Configuration by Geoffrey Reiter
 * The Exorcist and Legion: Religious Horrors by Tim Kroenert
 * The Devilish God: William Peter Blatty's Legion and the Problem of Evil by James Doig
 * Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable: The Theo-Illogical, Semi-Autobiographical Epic Film That Never Was by Michael Garrett
 * It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings: William Peter Blatty's Elsewhere and the Haunted House Formula by Davide Mana
 * The Exegesis of William Peter Blatty: Catholicism, Exorcism & Pazuzu by Benjamin Szumskyj