I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
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I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
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I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
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I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.
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I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.
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I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
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