POSSESSED

Book ID/图书代码： 02330015B78389

English Summary/英文概要： "The Exorcist", a 1973 movie about a twelve-year-old girl possessed by the Devil, frightened people more than any horror film ever did. Many moviegoers sought therapy to rid themselves of fears they could not explain. Psychiatrists coined the term "cinematic neurosis" for patients who left the movie feeling a terrifying presence of demons. At the Washington premiere, a young woman stood outside the theater, trembling. "I come out here in the sunlight," she said, "and I see people’s eyes, and they frighten me."Among the few moviegoers unmoved by the horror were two priests, Father William S. Bowdern and Father Walter Halloran, members of the Jesuit community at St. Louis University. "Billy came out shaking his head about the little girl bouncing on the bed and urinating on the crucifix," Halloran remembers. "He was kind of angry. ’There is a good message that can be given by this thing,’ he said. The message was the fact that evil spirits operate in our world."Bowdern and Halloran knew that the movie was fictional veneer masking a terrible reality. Night after night in March and April 1949, Bowdern had been an exorcist, with Halloran assisting. Bowdern fervently believed that he had driven a demon from a tormented soul. The victim had been a thirteen-year-old boy strangely lured to St. Louis from a Maryland suburb of Washington. Bowdern’s exorcism had been the inspiration for the movie.The true story of this possession, told in Possessed, is based on a diary kept by a Jesuit priest assisting Father Bowdern. The diary, the most complete account of an exorcism since the Middle Ages, is published for the first time in this revised edition of Possessed.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1973年，一部名为《驱魔人》的惊悚片令观影者们惊恐万分，电影讲述了一位鬼怪附体的12岁女孩的故事。许多观影者到处寻找疗法，去除内心难以名状的恐怖。精神科医生发明了“电影神经官能症”一词，来形容因为这部电影而惊吓过度的患者。在极少数不为所动的观影者中，有两名牧师，William S. Bowdern和Walter Halloran。 Halloran记得“Billy对于小女孩在床上蹦来蹦去、在十字架上撒尿的场景连连摇头，显得颇为生气。”Bowdern 和 Halloran知道，电影是虚构的，但展现了恐怖的事实。1949年的三月和四月期间，夜复一夜，Bowdern扮演着“驱魔人”的角色，Halloran从旁协助。Bowdern坚信，他为饱受折磨的灵魂驱赶了魔鬼，而受害者是一位13岁的男孩。Bowdern的驱魔术成了电影《驱魔人》的灵感。而《着魔》这本小说中所讲述的真实故事，是基于当年协助Bowdern驱魔的牧师的日记。这本自中世纪以来最完整的关于驱魔术的日记，以小说的形式首次问世。（LYR）

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About the Author/作者介绍： THOMAS B. ALLEN曾独立或合作出版过18本小说，包括与诺曼•波尔马合著的特工书籍。在此之前，Thomas曾担任“国家地理学会”书籍部的副主编，定期为《国家地理杂志》供稿，其作品从军事题材到自然历史，涉猎颇广。曾著有《蓝色与灰色：内战历史》，并与诺曼合著过《特工书籍：间谍与二战百科》。

THOMAS B. ALLEN is author or co-author of 18 books, including Spy Book, which was co-authored with Norman Polmar. Formerly Associate Chief of the National Geographic Society’s Book Service, he is a frequent contributor to National Geographic Magazine. His writings range from military subjects to natural history, including Vanishing Wildlife of North America, published by the National Geographic Society. He is the author of The Blue and the Gray, a history of the Civil War published by the Geographic, and the co-author, with Norman Polmar, of Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage and World War II: America at War 1941-1945.

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