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Books like The Exorcist

Across Film, History & Criticism, Horror, and Performing Arts — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Exorcist by Mark Kermode.

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of The Exorcist.

Horror A Companion — Simon Bacon

Horror A Companion

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

The Thing — Anne Billson

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday The 13th — Peter M. Bracke

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday The 13th

Peter M. Bracke

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968 — Kevin Heffernan

Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968

Kevin Heffernan

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Necronomicon — Andy Black

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Dr. AC Presents Horror 101 The A-list of Horror Films and Monster Movies — Aaron Christensen

Dr. AC Presents Horror 101 The A-list of Horror Films and Monster Movies

Aaron Christensen

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

It’s Me, Billy – Black Christmas Revisited (hardback) — Paul Downey

It’s Me, Billy – Black Christmas Revisited (hardback)

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Circulating Fear Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media — Lindsay Nelson

Circulating Fear Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

The Devil Inside The Dark Legacy of the Exorcist — Carlos Acevedo

The Devil Inside The Dark Legacy of the Exorcist

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

The Amazing, Colossal Book of Horror Trivia Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Scary Movies But Were Afraid to Ask — Jonathan Malcolm Lampley

The Amazing, Colossal Book of Horror Trivia Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Scary Movies But Were Afraid to Ask

Jonathan Malcolm Lampley

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

The Making of George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead — Lee Karr

The Making of George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

The Crow The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Classic Film — Bridget Baiss

The Crow The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Classic Film

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Body Genre Anatomy of the Horror Film — David Scott Diffrient

Body Genre Anatomy of the Horror Film

David Scott Diffrient

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Alfred Hitchcock All the Films The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short — Bernard Benoliel

Alfred Hitchcock All the Films The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

Bernard Benoliel

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

The Black Guy Dies First Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar — Robin R. Means Coleman

The Black Guy Dies First Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

Robin R. Means Coleman

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

So Fetch The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It) — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

So Fetch The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

The Lady from the Black Lagoon Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick — Mallory O’Meara

The Lady from the Black Lagoon Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick — Mallory O’Meara

Mallory O'Meara

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Behind the Horror True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies — Dr. Lee Mellor

Behind the Horror True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Bloody Women Women Directors of Horror — Aislinn Clarke

Bloody Women Women Directors of Horror

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Horror Cinema — Paul Duncan

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Hitchcock and Herrmann The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema — Steven C. Smith

Hitchcock and Herrmann The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema

Steven C. Smith

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Screening Stephen King Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television — Simon Brown

Screening Stephen King Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Men, Women, and Chain Saws Gender in the Modern Horror Film – Updated Edition — Carol J. Clover

Men, Women, and Chain Saws Gender in the Modern Horror Film – Updated Edition

Carol J. Clover

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

Fright Favorites 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond — David J. Skal

Fright Favorites 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond

Themes: Film • History & Criticism • Horror

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for The Exorcist by Mark Kermode — spanning Film, History & Criticism, Horror and featuring authors such as Simon Bacon, Anne Billson, Peter M. Bracke, Kevin Heffernan, and others.

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