Ira Levin 'The Exorcist,' 'The Omen.' A whole generation has been exposed, has more belief in Satan. I don't believe in Satan. And I feel that the strong fundamentalism we have would not be as strong if there hadn't been so many of these books [...] Of course, I didn't send back any of the royalty checks." Other Levin novels that were made into films included "The Boys from Brazil" in 1978, and "The Stepford Wives" in 1975 and again in 2004. In the 1990s, Levin wrote two more bestselling novels: "Sliver" (1991) which became a film in 1993 by Phillip Noyce,
The Woman in White (novel) her fortune of £20,000 (then an enormous sum of money) by default falls to her husband on her death. This provides the motive for the conspiracy of her unscrupulous husband and his co-conspirator Fosco. In his later "Man and Wife", Collins portrays another victim of the law's partiality, who takes a terrible revenge on her husband. The novel was first published in serial form in 1859–60, appearing in Charles Dickens' magazine "All the Year Round" (UK) and "Harper's Weekly" (USA). It was published in book form in 1860. The novel was extremely successful commercially, but contemporary critics were generally hostile.