Terrifying Reads: Books Born from True Horror Stories

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson (1977)

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Possessed by Thomas B. Allen (1993)

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The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House by Steven LaChance (2004)

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (2003)

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Haunted by Jay Alani (2015)

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)

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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (1971)

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The Amityville Murders by Gerald Sullivan (1981)

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