On December 18th, 1975, George and Kathy Lutz, with their three children, moved into their new home at 112, Ocean Avenue, Amityville. Twenty eight days later, they fled from the house in terror. Plagued by extreme cold and strange unearthly smells, by clouds of flies in the dead of winter, by voices and music that came from nowhere, by green slime that came from the walls ... by unspeakable phenomena inconceivable this side of the gates of Hell ! --back cover