Loyd Auerbach

<sup>In December 1975, George and Kathleen Lutz and their three children moved into a pleasant Dutch colonial home in suburban Amityville on Long Island, New York. They knew when they purchased the house that only a year earlier, twenty—three—year—old Ron DeFeo had massacred his parents and siblings in the home, which had remained empty until the Lutzes bought it. The Lutzes were unconcerned about the crime, but only a month after moving in they left the house for good. They claimed that they had been forced to leave because of the terrifying demonic events that occurred there.

Two years later, the Lutzes' experiences were recounted in a best—selling book, The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson, and shortly after that a hit movie with the same name arrived on the big...</sup>