Regan MacNeil, The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
Her pretty eleven-year-old was asleep…sad, large green eyes grieving in a waiflike face…She looked at her daughter, at the turned-up nose and freckled face…Her daughter’s features were contorting into a malevolent mask: lips pulling tautly into opposite directions…Chris blinked at the mad-staring, grinning face, at the cracked, parched lips and foxlike eyes. She screamed until she fainted…Karras saw the scratch marks on her face; the cuts on her lips where apparently she’d bitten them. …her cracked and swollen lips…Karras shifted his gaze to the tangled, thickly matted hair.This week Looper.com featured several of the horror-themed composites in an article about film adaptations. Check it out here!
