Over the past five decades, the “Exorcist Steps,” at 36th and Prospect streets in Georgetown, have become an enormously popular destination for both locals and tourists.
Monday at 87, wound up creating a monument every bit as iconic. Over the past five decades, the “Exorcist Steps,” at 36th and Prospect streets in Georgetown, have become an enormously popular destination for both locals and tourists: Joggers regularly use the 75 stairs as a challenging; fans treat them as a filmgoer’s mecca, a reminder of the most hauntingly frightening time Washington played itself.
Maybe it’s something about stairways: their architectural open-endedness, the way they invite either aspirational ascension or hell-bound descent. For filmmakers, a dark, shadowy stairway represents both the tantalizing and the terrifying . Along with parking garages, bell towers, basements and attics, stairways are the ultimate liminal space; depending on the angle, they’re either filled with possibility or fraught with peril.
The Exorcist Steps made their first appearance in William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel, which was based on a real-life possession that occurred in 1949, and whose locations were based on Blatty’s real life in Georgetown as a student. In the book, Blatty described the steps as “a precipitous plunge of old stone steps” that “fell away to M Street far below.
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