Jay Anson

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Jay Anson 4 November 1921 12 March 1980 was an American author whose most famous work was The Amityville Horror 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 Lutzs original claims A film was later made of the book which exemplified these additions Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Anson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia