666 by Jay Anson

666 Reviews

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  Rebecca McNutt

  Holy cow do authors ever love milking this Amityville Horror crp how long ago was the the Amityville film released? When my parents were little children back in the early Seventies?? I mean all you've gotta do is stamp the words Amityville on a book and BANG instant bestseller Too bad they're rarely any good I did enjoy a few aspects of 666 but it didn't have that shocking spookiness that it boasted nor did I care about any of the characters It wasn't a bad book per se but not something that I would ever read again either
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  J.K. Grice

  666 is one of the first horror books I ever read Jay Anson was most famous for THE AMITYVILLE HORROR In high school I thought this book was just fantastic After reading it again a few years ago I found that it was entertaining enough if fairly predictable Worth a one time read though
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  Grady Hendrix

  Amityville Horror without the smart bits Who even knew Amityville Horror had smart bits?
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  Melissa Chung

  This is the second book I’ve read written by Jay Anson I really like his writing Engaging and creepy enough to keep you wanting I definitely enjoyed this book than The Amityville Horror Maybe it’s because I didn’t know anything about 666 before picking it up A solid 4 starsKeith Olson is a carpenter His wife Jennifer is an interior designer They’ve been married for almost 2 years Jennifer has a very attractive older friend named David Carmichael who is an antiues dealerAfter the couple come home from an extended vacation they discover a new house across the gully from their own It surprises them that the house has been built so uickly while they were away Keith goes to investigates and finds an old Roman coin A few days later David comes over for dinner and Keith asks him to look into the coin Find out what kind of coin it is and what it’s worthThis is when all the creepy fantastic stuff starts happening The book is under 300 pages so definitely can be read in one or two sittings I really enjoyed it It’s main theme is mans free will and their choices I love supernatural books especially when the are about occult’s religion and demonic in nature If you are that kind of reader you will definitely enjoy this book
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  Reading Reindeer

  I read this many years ago and a second time also uite some time ago Although I enjoyed Mr Anson's The Amityville Horror which was somewhat scary probably due to the son roaming around with a shotgun than actual paranormal events I found 666 a truly frightening book and I put it on the same level with Anne Rivers Siddons' The House Next Door also a book I've read several times with the same results scared to blazes didn't want to sleep kept looking over my shoulder Both of these are winners in the classic horror category in my opinion I have to wonder how much in this vein Mr Anson might have written had he lived a longer life
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  Jennifer

  I've been fascinated with the idea of horror novels lately and have been wanting to read some vintage 1970s horror 666 is the first I've read on that kick it's what I found available at the library on Saturday 666 was published in 1981 a year or two past the 70s and the death of disco and the same year the final Omen movie was released but the story is set in 1978 and has that 1970s feel I wanted I inhaled the book in two days The story pulled me in right away a fun commercial thrill read that was creepy enough that I was a little spooked last night when I went to bed and compelling enough that I couldn't put it downThe suspense is terrific The I read the my imagination throbbed producing much scarier thoughts than what Anson delivers at the climax but that's the kind of book I enjoy most something that jumps my brain into overdrive And if the end isn't all that scary so much the better I'll sleep soundly tonightPS The book was published posthumously adding to the creep factor Anson died in 1980
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  Kevin Lucia

  Cheesy 80's horror fare Interesting how the Amityville incident started this guy's career
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  Dez Nemec

  Not the best book I've ever read but entertaining
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  Mary

  It's the omen of ultimate evilthe sign of the Devilthe number of the Beast666That was the diabolical number on the old house that suddenly appeared on Sunset Brook Lane Yet such an beautifully unassuming Victorian style house couldn't possibly hold something so evil could it? Perhaps it couldFor stepping inside 666 Sunset Brook Lane could only bring with it eternal damnation Inside an infernal red light flickers from an unseen sourceInside ghostly specters stare down mockingly from the windows in a grotesue mimicry of bloody horrorsInside an ancient supernatural relic waits for human hands to lift it for human eyes to see its ghastly demonic visionsFor this is no ordinary house This is a house that appears and disappears seemingly at will; inexplicably moving from time to time place to place to torment the lives of the innocent This is a house where the same bloody dreadfully gruesome eternal crime occurs again and again delivering its victims to the very brink of hell straight into the hands of the Devil himselfAnd for interior designer Jennifer Olson designing her first solo project and her husband Keith the house at 666 Sunset Brook Lane has just swung open its door in welcomeI usually enjoy reading books about haunted houses and 666 by Jay Anson was no different I must say that I loved this book from start to finish For a book written in 1981 I found that the horror held up strongly throughout the entire story I also appreciated that the story held together until the very end; in my opinion it never fell apart and the horror never became fanciful or far fetched as I've noticed with certain horror novels I would give 666 by Jay Anson an AActually I owned a copy of this book in the past but eventually I sent it to my sister who lives in Australia for her to read I had already read it once or twice about twenty years ago and I hoped that she would enjoy it as much as I had Several times during the ensuing ten or twelve years since I sent my copy of 666 to my sister I've found myself wishing that I could read it again When Mareena first said that she had gotten this book for me as a 'just because' gift of course I was delighted However I didn't remember reading the book before or even realized that I had wanted an extra copy to keep for myself until I had read a couple of pages into the story Now 666 by Jay Anson is a definite keeper for me
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  Frank Tibbetts

  Keith and Jennifer Olson return home from Grand Bahama islands and discover a house has been placed on a vacant lot across from theirsthe address? 666 Sunset Brook Lane Keith is a carpenter who owns his own business Curious he visits the house hoping to meet the owner Upon entering the home and finding it empty his woodworking instincts kick in and he realizes the house is in dire need of repairs He enters the bathroom and a bronze Roman coina sestertious drops from the ceiling As he enters a room with crimson light glowing through etched figures in six glass panes present themselves to him one resembles him Keith becomes obsessed with finding out the history of such a strange house Jennifer is an interior decorator and becomes strangely attracted to David Carmichael a friend whom she knows from New York City At dinner one night Keith hands him the sestertious and David is transported into a realm of pure torture and madness Seeing the burning coin placed in a victims mouth he decides to investigated the origin of it Keith researches the house and discovers that a double murder happened in it before it was moved from the previous address 666 Bremerton road Keith is hired to make all the repairs to the house by a Mr Coste the mysterious owner who insists on remaining invisible The house begins to exert mystic force as Keith becomes increasingly jealous of David David moves into the house and Jennifer begins decorating it for him The two become increasingly attracted to each other We find that the forces of Evil triumph and the victims come face to face with Satan himself I enjoyed the suspense in this book Jay Anson funnels both history and storyline spiraling down into a shocking ending His creative explanation of the origin of the house through the eyes of a Satanist is truly incredible Published in 1981 and also the author of Amityville Horror Jay Anson had me glued to every page I found no boring parts or lagtime in this story and I found it to be a great thriller