Amity
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"An evil house manipulates its residents to dark ends in this novel inspired by The Amityville Horror. . . . A dark read for a darker night." —Kirkus Reviews
Here is a house of ruin and rage, of death and deliverance.
Here is where I live, not living.
Here is always mine.
When Connor's family moves to Amity, a secluded house on the peaceful banks of New England's Concord River, his nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons, destruction, and revenge. Dreams he kind of likes. Dreams he could make real, with Amity's help.
Ten years later, Gwen's family moves to Amity for a fresh start. Instead, she's haunted by lurid visions, disturbing voices, and questions about her own sanity. But who would ever believe her? And what could be done if they did?
Because Amity isn't just a house. She is a living force, bent on manipulating her inhabitants to her twisted will. She will use Connor and Gwen to bring about a violent end as she's done before.
Inspired by a true-crime story, Amity spans generations to weave an overlapping, interconnected tale of terror, insanity, danger, and death.
"Calling to mind that Stephen King feeling, Ostow brings the most horrifying house in the world to life with chilling intimacy." —Danielle Paige, New York Times–bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die
"Steeped in atmosphere and punctuated by unsettling imagery." —Publishers Weekly
"A page-turning thriller, Amity will have readers begging to keep the lights on at night." —Voice of Youth Advocates
Customer Reviews
The Bad Place
The Amityville Horror, about 50 years ago, lives again in a new generational retelling.
The Bad Place, that has lived in folklore and tabloids as a cautionary tale of family dysfunction (real or imagined) and what desperate people will do to save themselves. Told from the prospective from various young people, Amity, slides in and at times in prose and poetry. Sometimes it’s not easy to keep track of who is who and when is when.
What Amity does well is take the familiar tale of families ripping apart under real or imagined demons (either personal or imagined) and breathes new life into a story all know. The Red Eyes, the Red Room, evil spirits, whispered tales of witches, Native Indigenous People curses and the insane whatever lives (?) there seems fresh and dangerously lurking in shadow. It keeps you turning the pages.
Amity is always there waiting to rediscovered again and again. It is the Bad Place, the Shunned House and stands along with Hill House (The Haunting of Hill House) The Overlook, (The Shining) Hell House (Hell House) and Mother (Burnt Offerings) with certainty. It awaits to be revisited again and again.