The Intruders

By Pat Montandon

Book Overview

THE INTRUDERS is the harrowing story of a near fatal encounter with the forces of darkness and malevolence. Pat Montandon, well known West Coast TV talk show hostess, had no reason to believe in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0698106369
• ISBN13: 9780698106369
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Coward McCann
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

BEST TRUE HAUNTING BOOK

I have read just about every "True Haunting" memoir available and this one is the best--rates number 1 on my list. It is truly creepy and disturbing. Not just a story of strange sounds in an old house. The author experienced many very disturbing events over the years of living in an old apartment in San Francisco. Pay no attention to the one star rating of this book. I have read it three times, and it truly disturbs me every time. Also it is very well written without the usual garbled syntax and and grammar that "haunt" these true haunting books. I think Ms. Montandon's book is a cut above because she is a professional writer who happened to experience the events in the book. Not someone who puts out a self-published piece of junk. Even though it is a tiny bit dated, I highly recommend this one--well worth the price because you will want to keep it and read it over and over.

It took me days to shake off this book's depressing atomosphere.

I've read countless true ghost stories over the years...I've got bookcases full of them. I normally can read one in bed, turn off the light, and go to sleep in the dark without giving it another thought. Not this one. It really affected me in a depressing way for some reason. Yet I couldn't put it down, I read the entire book in one sitting. And shortly after starting it, I realized that I had heard of this woman before. Several years ago, in a British book on ghost photos, I saw a photograph of her and a photograph of one of the ghosts in her house, which at the time freaked me out so much I never forgot it.

Really creepy memories...

I read this book about 25 years ago as a teenager. Being a native San Franciscan, it was even more scary being familiar with the places she talks about in the book. After all these years I still remember how fascinated, and at the same time scared witless, both my sister and I were while reading this fantastic book. I still vividly remember a scene in the book when her friend presumably "dies of fright" while house-sitting for her. Holy Cow.... This is a great book.

up there with the scariest non-fiction

This is one of those books that sticks in your mind for years. I went 17 years between my first and second reads and the second was as clutching and eery as the first. To my surprise, I found that I still couldn't read it in bed at night alone. It's a classic gripper!

Spooky

This is a great spooky tale, which is supposedly true. Pat Montandon recounts her life in the late 60's and the time she spent in a "hexed" apartment in San Francisco. This is no "based on true events" type Amityville Horror yarn, but a genuinely spooky tale with enough real evidence to make a believer out of anyone. Most of the goings on are not supernatural, and yet too frequent and strange to be mere coincidence. If you have insomnia, crack this one open and it will freak you out. You can easily get through it in one restless evening. They are making a movie out of this soon and I hope they do well by it.