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The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die

Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

Kevin Mims
Kevin Mims
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The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die
The Amityville Horror (Stuart Rosenberg, 1979)
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