Those Sleazy 70s!

Apparently re-titled to cash in on the success of THE EXORCIST, this sleazy, 1974 occultic sexromp would've been more accurately called THE SEANCE OF ANGELA GRAY.

Stanley Ladd (a man "on the wrong side of 30") lets a younger woman he meets outside a health club stay at his apartment...and before long she latently moves in. When they're not having sex or smoking joints, Angela often wakes at night, telling horrifing stories about orgies and being raped by a ram, although she's not sure if these are just dreams or repressed memories.

Things take a ROSEMARY'S BABY-ish turn when Angela reveals to Stanley she's pregnant, and has been since before she moved in. But what eventually comes out of her isn't human...and Angela dies during the delivery (and this is only at the halfway point!). The second half of the story deals with Stanley locating the coven who Angela had mentioned and then sitting in on one of their seances as they attempt to contact her.

THE EXORCISM OF ANGELA GRAY is a typical, trashy early 70s pulp horror novel, full of sex, violence, drugs, and "satanism." I believe this is the only novel Vane wrote, although he did pen 14 screenplays and directed 7 flms (inclding 1983's FRIGHTMARE). If you enjoy a quick read in the vein of a low-budget B-movie, you'll enjoy it.