In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their brand-new home on suburban Lengthy Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, twelve months previously, Ronald DeFeo got murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property-complete with boathouse and swimming pool-and the price were too great to avoid.

Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror.

This is actually the spellbinding, bestselling true story that gripped the nation, the storyplot of a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to spell it out.