title: The Devil I Know: My Haunting Journey with Ronnie DeFeo and the True Story of the Amityville Murde rs
author:  Jackie Barrett 
description: "This is the final word on the matter straight from the killer's mouth, it has ended the only way it could have. Barrett has given us one last look at the case that engulfed New York, and does not disappoint." --Fangoria Magazine<br /><br />Hartford Books Examiner- Sits down for a Q&amp;A about The Devil I Know thanks Jackie Barrett for generously sharing her unique insights.<br /><br />If you have been looking for a great book for Halloween , look no further The Devil I Know is jaw-dropping utterly fascinating story of a vivid psychic underworld that runs parallel to anything remotely "normal' - MobileGhost.net
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  # Tokyo Ueno Station
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![Title Page: The Devils' Dance, by Hamid Ismailov. Translated by Donald
  Rayfield. Published by Tilted Axis Press.](image/1.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  There’s that sound again.
  
  
  That sound—
  
  
  I hear it.
  
  
  But I don’t know if it’s in my ears or in my mind.
  
  
  I don’t know if it’s inside me or outside.
  
  
  I don’t know when it was, or who it was either.
  
  
  Is that important?
  
  
  Was it?
  
  
  Who was it?
  
  
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  I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the
  next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last
  one. But life is nothing like a story in a book. There may be words, and the
  pages may be numbered, but there is no plot. There may be an ending, but there
  is no end.
  
  
  Left behind—
  
  
  Like a sculpted tree on the vacant land where a rotted house has been torn
  down.
  
  
  Like the water in a vase after wilted flowers have been