Child of Darkness, Child of Light. Poster of the 1991 movie and cover of the 1980 book, Virgin
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Virgin
James Patterson, 1980
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Marina Sargenti, 1991

The Vatican sends Father Rosetti to a small town in Pennsylvania to investigate a report of a potential virgin birth, but he is attacked by unidentified bikers on the way and left in a catatonic state. As a result, the Vatican dispatches Father Justin O’Carroll to take his place, warning him that 70 years earlier, the Virgin Mary appeared in an Italian village and left a message predicting the birth of a divine child at the end of the century.


Whispers. Poster of the 1990 movie and cover of the 1980 book
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Whispers
Dean Koontz, 1980
movie vs book
Douglas Jackson, 1990

Writer Hilary Thomas is being pursued by psychopath Bruno Clavel, a man she once interviewed at his family’s Massachusetts orchard while researching for a book. She eventually kills him, only for the man to show up again, this time sane and without any knowledge of the attacks. The police don’t believe her, but one detective agrees to look into it.