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Title: I agree that it wasn't written by Stephen King...
Review: It was probably written by an ABC ghostwriter, to tie in to the Stephen King miniseries coming at the end of January. The plot is a combination of "Haunting of Hill House", "Poltergeist", and "Amityville Horror". I found the diary format plodding, the characters uninteresting, and the emphasis on Ellen & John's sexual problems boring. Read it all the way through hoping it would get better, but it didn't. Would much have preferred a screenplay, like they did with King's "Storm of the Century". This will be "must reading" for those who watch the ABC miniseries, but do yourself a favor and buy Shirley Jackson's "Haunting of Hill House", and the superb 1963 b&w Julie Harris version of the movie "Haunting".
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