Legion (Blatty novel)
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| Author | William Peter Blatty |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1983 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 248 (original hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-671-47045-0 |
| OCLC | 9392479 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3552.L392 L4 1983 |
| Preceded by | The Exorcist |
Legion is a 1983 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. A sequel to The Exorcist, it also involves demonic possession and was adapted for the film The Exorcist III in 1990. 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".