How Can I Understand the Flies?

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Follow-up to the Anson original. John G. Jones continued writing Amityville novels even into the 21st century, if you can believe it.

Warner Books Jan 1982/Art by Dennis Luzak

And You Know What They Said? Well None of It Was True

I agree that this one "will scare the hell out of you" as per Kansas City Star but like any rational sane person must disagree with that tagline "a true story." Yes, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his family in the house at 112 Ocean Drive; the "supernatural" aspect invented by others remains a disgusting exploitative stain on an already tragic event. But that photo-negative of the house on the 1978 Bantam paperback is one of the iconic horror images of that entire decade, and I can't say it didn't terrify me as a kid.