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Book Review of 666

666
666
Author: Jay Anson
Genre: Horror
Book Type: Hardcover
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It is Tuesday, April 10, 1979. A nice young married couple, Keith and Jennifer Olson, arrive home at their house in New Castle, New York, to discover that in the few days they have been on vacation, something unexpected and startling has happened. A house has mysteriously appeared on the vacant lot across from theirs-a house that soon begins to exert a powerful, frightening, demonic influence on their lives...
666 takes the reader into the world of evil that Jay Anson so brilliantly explored in The Amityville Horror-an evil that lies unexpected behind the door of an ordinary looking house, a house that reappears from time to time near any city, waiting invitingly, innocently, for someone to rent it, a house in which a dreadful, bloody, orgiastic crime recurs again and again, bringing its victims screaming to the very brink of hell-and into the hands of the Devil himself.
As Keith becomes more and more obsessed by the house, with its intricately carved beams that seemed to have witnessed every human crime and its strange, etched windows that glow with a malevolent light, Jennifer finds herself drawn to her friend David Carmichael, a handsome, self assured man who is everything Keith is not...Inexorably, without their realizing what is happening to them, their lives are being changed by a presence in the house, a powerful force who lets nothing stand in his way-and who at last appears to his victims in a heart-stopping scene of gruesome violence you will never forget.