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Violence
Some
A family murder in the backstory; supernatural manifestations with some physical threat
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The experience of a family being driven mad by a house they cannot afford to leave creates sustained dread
What this book is about
Jay Anson's classic horror account presents itself as the true story of the Lutz family's 28 days in the Amityville house where Ronald DeFeo Jr. had murdered his family a year earlier. Whether fiction or fabrication, Anson's book is the template for a generation of haunted house stories. The supernatural horror escalates steadily; the violence is primarily suggested rather than graphic. A significant cultural artifact of 1970s American horror.
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Family murder in backstory
Sustained supernatural horror and psychological manipulation
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