Three stars mostly because others have turned this into a pretty good scary movie. This account of the Lutz family’s 28 days in the Long Island murder house is oddly matter-of-fact and sometimes even unintentionally funny, despite giant pig “friends” with glowing eyes, hooded figures, a room full of winter flies, inexplicable illnesses, and windows that open and close by themselves. Father Mancuso, a family friend and reluctant exorcist, provides the comedy by his constant avoidance of the Lutzes in their hour of need. Anson really doesn’t provide any easy answers for the reader and in the end the book sort of becomes one damned thing after another. The end.