Jay Anson is best known for The Amityville Horror, a book presented as the account of the Lutz family's brief stay in a house on Long Island where a mass murder had taken place the previous year. The narrative describes cold spots, strange sounds, disturbing dreams, swarms of flies and other increasingly threatening events that the family said drove them from the property after less than a month. Written in a plain, report-like style, the book helped establish a form of modern haunted-house reading that blurs documentary presentation, alleged paranormal testimony and horror storytelling. Anson also wrote 666, a novel about a couple whose newly purchased house becomes connected with occult danger. The Amityville Horror sits at the intersection of paranormal horror, haunted-house narrative and supposedly true supernatural accounts. The Amityville Horror is the clearest first book, but readers interested in factual history should distinguish the book's claims and later cultural mythology from independently verified events. Read more Less
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