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Update: Bill’s wife let me know that he looked into it, but it isn’t true. However, she did also state the following: “It IS a shame….don’t know why it’s listed. Maybe if there are enough pre-orders, they really will re-release it…”
Here’s hoping!
Hmmm… if the fans demand it, it will come. Just like with Dominion? 😀 Frankly, Blatty’s work is deserving of a comeback to the public eye. A resurgence. And I think Elsewhere genuinely does deserve a seperate singluar novel treatment. They split the atom and they split up Grindhouse with Tarantino’s Deathproof finding an audience of its own. So surely there’s an audience out there for this obscure Blatty gem.
M.I.K.E.
Friends,
I ordered this book long ago and after several e-mails to the publishing house, received the same reply “It’s coming”.
My REAL concern, is whether this was the book Blatty cited in his interview with Winter in FACES OF FEAR, where he mentions working on a novel larger than both The Exorcist and Legion. I don’t think it was, but would like to know for sure…
Cheers & God Bless
Benjamin Szumskyj
(editor of the forthcoming ‘American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty’)Benjamin, I’ve wanted to read Faces of Fear, but haven’t got to yet… Also, I once ordered If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels from a fairly reputable bookstore. Waited 2 weeks. Nothing. Call ’em back, and they said it was unavailable. Got my money back, but I would have preffered the book…
I need to recheck that FACES OF FEAR interview; I remember no such passage.
I have heard every year of so about a story called Dimeter, an apparently second true sequel novel to The Exorcist. Hmmmm…
Incidentally, Elsewhere features some certain Georgetown Catholic priests in cameos.
M.I.K.E.
Anyone else notice that in Legion, during the dream sequence, the destination spoken about over the loud speaker is “Elsewhere”?
🙂Anyone else notice that in Legion, during the dream sequence, the destination spoken about over the loud speaker is “Elsewhere”?
🙂http://www.cemeterydance.com/sh/blatty01.html
About This Title:
“…a witty ghost story of Jamesian complexity.”
— The Boston Herald“…may be the first truly original haunted house story in decades.”
— Denver Rocky Mountain NewsElsewhere
by William Peter Blattycover photograph by Bruce Haley
featuring interior artwork by Alex McVeyAbout the Book:
This incredible haunted house novel from William Peter Blatty, the legendary author of The Exorcist, is disturbing, unsettling, chilling, and laced with a nasty streak of dark humor. Elsewhere is a must-have for all fans of dark fiction and sure to become a time-honored classic in the genre.
Sample of the Interior Artwork by Alex McVey:
Reviews and Praise:
“William Peter Blatty’s excellent haunted house/ghost story, Elsewhere, certainly brings into question Stephen King’s recent assertion… that the traditional ghost story is dead. It’s Topper-like ending even injects an appropriate dash of humour.”
— Michael Revel Reviews“Innovatively constructed and skillfully written, the short novel is witty, scary, touching and thought-provoking.”
— Chicago Tribune“…a witty ghost story of Jamesian complexity.”
— The Boston Herald“…may be the first truly original haunted house story in decades.”
— Denver Rocky Mountain News“…an eerie new novel by William Peter Blatty.”
— Library Journal“William Peter Blatty’s novella ‘Elsewhere’ proves that the man who terrified us with The Exorcist still has the power to captivate and to scare the reader.”
— Denise Dumars in ManiaAbout the Author:
William Peter Blatty is the author of The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration, Legion, and many other books and numerous screenplays.About the Cover Artist:
Bruce Haley is the recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious photography awards in the world. Haley received this honor for his 1990 coverage of Burma’s bloody ethnic civil war.This self-taught photographer with a military and police background began his career in 1988, covering Afghanistan’s mujahideen resistance to Soviet occupation; shortly thereafter the legendary Howard Chapnick accepted Haley into Black Star, one of the industry’s premiere photo agencies. With a primary focus upon war and its aftermath, Haley photographed areas of conflict in Asia, Africa, Europe and the former Soviet Union. His images (from Burma) of a grisly execution by stabbing shocked the world and engendered much controversy and discussion. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Baltimore Sun in 1992, for helping to break the story of the famine in Somalia. Since the birth of his son, Haley has eased away from the battlefield, exploring subjects as diverse as the Bolivian altiplano, Eastern Europe’s persecuted Roma (Gypsies), and the decaying infrastructure of Soviet-era industry.
Haley’s photographs have appeared in books, magazines and newspapers worldwide, as well as in corporate publications and on CD, video and DVD covers; a list of his clients would include Time, Life, U.S. News and World Report, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, GEO, Aperture, Georgia-Pacific, and the Chevron Corporation. Numerous magazines and newspapers have profiled Haley and his work, among them American PHOTO, (French) PHOTO, and B&W. His limited-edition portfolio, entitled 13 Million Tons of Pig Iron, was #1 on the Photo-Eye Bestseller List. Haley’s exhibition prints have hung worldwide, under the auspices of such disparate entities as the Ansel Adams Gallery, the Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, Photo Americas, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the United Nations.
Available in three states:
item Trade Edition bound in full-cloth with full-color dust jacket artwork ($25)
item Slipcased Limited Edition of 350 signed and numbered copies ($75)
item Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with satin ribbon page marker ($250)Production Status:
Elsewhere has been designed, Alex McVey has turned in the surprise interior artwork, and the final round of proofreading was just completed. As soon as the signature sheets are signed, this one will be ready for the printer!Friends,
Ordered mine. And there’s a great essay on the novella in my fortcoming book… lol
Cheers & God Bless
Benjamin Szumskyj
Editor, AMERICAN EXORCIST
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