Jay Anson was an American

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 whose most famous work was The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror: A True Story is a book by Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released between 1979 and 2005...

. After the runaway success of that novel, he wrote 666, which also dealt with a haunted house. He died in 1980.

His work, The Amityville Horror, was sold as "a true story", and it was based on the reported experiences of George Lutz and Kathleen Lutz at 112 Ocean Avenue in December 1975. The Lutzes had sold the rights to the book to Anson, who had added and adapted to some of the Lutz's original claims. A film was later made of the book, which exemplified these additions.

Works

• Operation Dirty Dozen (1967), writer
• The Moviemakers (1969), writer
• The Saga of: Jeremiah Johnson (1972), documentary, writer
• Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films (1975), documentary, writer
• Lumet: Film Maker (1975), documentary, writer
• Urban Living: Funny and Formidable (1975), short, writer
• Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973), documentary, writer
• The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today (1973), documentary, writer
• The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance (1972), documentary, writer
• On the Road with: Scarecrow (1973), documentary, writer
• The Amityville Horror: A True Story (1977), novel
• 666 (1980), novel

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