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The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property - complete with boathouse and swimming pool - and the price were too good to pass up.

Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror.

This is the spellbinding, best-selling, true story that gripped the nation - the story of a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe.

Jay Anson began as a copy boy on the New York Evening Journal in 1937 and later worked in advertising and publicity. With more than 500 documentary scripts for television to his credit, he was associated with Professional Films, Inc. He died in 1980.

©1977 Jay Anson; published in arrangement with Lesia Anson (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Religious Studies Paranormal Fiction Parapsychology Fantasy Scary

Critic Reviews

"A fascinating and frightening book." ( Los Angeles Times)
"This book will scare the hell out of you." ( Kansas City Times)
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this audiobook read by Ray Porter really struck home, I normally listen to audiobooks with a narrative that talks as if from a person's perspective. Ray Porter's voice combined with the haunting tale that is this story added an atmosphere that I haven't really gotten from a horror book before. being a Christian and even before I was a Christian this book brings to light many questions regarding afterlife ghosts demons cetera. if you haven't experienced a ghost story in audio format yet then this one's probably for you listen to it with the lights down and let it question your imagination. as always report his performance was amazing and a great story although horrific.

haunting

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Another amazing narration by Ray Porter! A true master of his craft! Brings everything to life!

Ray Porters narration

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Great book to listen to if you'reinterested in the paranormal. The narrator did a great job.

A must....

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Frightening, factual feeling account of paranormal dealings.
Brilliant book that stands alone compared to the movie, well worth the listen/read if you are a horror fan.

Seen the movies? This is better!

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My expectations were too high I think so I felt somewhat letdown by the book, I was expecting more drama.

Cheated

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I enjoyed the performance of this book. I found the story scarier than the film adaptations, what these poor families went through. Recommend to any true crime and mystery lovers.

Intriguing story

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Has been a major disappointment.
The narration by Ray Porter was so void of voice expression that I actually could not finish listening to the first chapter.
In fact I go further to say that a computer generated voice would have more expression.

I love this story. I first read it over 35 years ago. This narration has stripped it of all the scariness that the book is famous for.

Excessively disappointed. If I had have been able to get a refund I would.

What should have been a wonderful scare...

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I came into this with a fairly open mind as to what happened at Amityville. At this stage I feel relatively unconvinced but entertained by a good story nonetheless.
The writing style of the book doesn't lend itself well to the non fiction category it's in, told in a very subjective first person way. It is an interesting and enjoyable story, however, I found the reading of this story overly dramatic at times.
Overall I enjoyed but am not convinced of it as a nonfiction.

Less of a non-fiction - more of a good horror story

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Was an interesting story. It covers a lot more of the finer details & facts than what the movie portrays

More in-depth than the movie

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It's amazing how much of classic horror moments are in this, The Omen in particular had a lot of overlap. I guess this is a concentrated account of phenomena reported in haunting-type events, but it's still amazing how much it taps into what makes our hair strands on end.

Horror classic

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