Book description
The Exorcist isn't a book you read. It's a sound you hear in the dark.
William Peter Blatty's masterpiece, narrated with chilling precision, arrives in your ears. Not as words. As presence.
Chris MacNeil's daughter Regan isn't just sick. She's changed. The medical world stumbles. The Church sends Father Karras. Then Father Merrin. The horror isn't in the vomit or the head-spinning. It's in the voice.
You hear it. The voice in the dark. Not the girl's voice. It's a growl. A whisper. A thousand voices speaking through a child.
The narrator doesn't shout. They don't need to. The quiet moments are worse. The sound of Regan's head twisting in the night. The rustle of a priest's cassock in a silent house. The wrongness of a child's laugh.
Blatty doesn't describe the demon. He makes you hear it breathe. The foul language isn't shock. It's the sound of something ancient and hungry, using a child's mouth to curse God. You don't just hear the words. You feel the distortion in the audio. The slight, unnatural pitch shift. The way the voice seems to come from everywhere and nowhere.
Karras isn't just a priest. He's a man cracking apart. His doubt, his fear, his desperate prayers-they're all in the narrator's voice. You hear the tremor. You hear the exhaustion. You hear the moment he realizes he's fighting something science cannot name.
The Church's authority isn't loud. It's a low hum of Latin, a steady, unshakeable rhythm against the chaos. Merrin's calm is the only solid thing in the room. His voice, when he speaks, carries weight. It's the sound of faith, worn thin but still holding.
The audiobook makes the ordinary terrifying. The creak of a floorboard. The drip of a faucet. The silence after a scream. You lean in. You listen closer. Because the real horror isn't the demon. It's what happens when the world you know stops making sense. When your daughter's eyes look at you with something else behind them.
This isn't horror for the sake of shock. It's horror for the soul. Blatty wrote it to unsettle. The audiobook delivers. It doesn't scare you with jump scares. It stays with you. After the last word, the silence feels thinner. You hear your own breath. You wonder if the sound in your hallway is real.
The Exorcist is the most terrifying thing you'll hear this year. Not because it's loud. Because it's so quiet, you can't ignore it.
Listen tonight. But don't listen alone.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience