Aquí vive el horror

Honestly, all I could really think about through most of the book is how a rich person's giant house with 3 stories plus a finished basement, 2.5 car garage, 2 boat boathouse, in ground heated pool and almost an acre of waterfront property was only 80k and I can't buy a livable 2 bed, 2 bath house in a non-bad area for less than 250k...returnAmityville was a very quick, much lighter, direct, matter of fact read than I anticipated. I guess to maintain the verisimilitude of being 'real' (thank those grifters the Warrens for that I guess), it stays journalistically straight to the point throughout. returnIf you enjoyed the movies, you won't find much of their DNA here. No real father-as-possessed-villian...though there are a few recognizable and shared bits...Honestly I see more of this in 'Poltergeist' than in its own movie adaptations. Maybe even little in 'House'.

Interesting but kinda annoying that it's constantly going "This is true" and "We have multiple accounts so it's basically fact". The priest's story is completely irrelevant and uninteresting, so much time is spent on him going "Oh no I have a cold maybe I should call the family". He barely does anything to impact the story of the family and I find it hilarious that he receives so much more bodily harm than any of the family members for just talking to them on the phone. <br/>   <br/>

This was the first contemporary horror book I'd ever read. I can still remember reading in during the day in my bedroom. I didn't even pay attention to my mom walking up the stairs.

She leaned into the doorway and said, "Supper's almost ready."
I think I levitated three feet off the bed and shrieked.

If you want to read a good horror novel published in 1977, read The Shining.

My rating has nothing to do with weather this story is actually true or not, the Blare Witch Project is still a fun and scary movie even though everyone know it's fake. My rating is so low because while this story had a lot of potential to be a great and scary read, it just fell flat due to the horrible writing. At times it was almost painful to read it was so bad, (almost as bad or worse than BWP's damnable, puke inducing shaky cam) but I really wanted to know how it all turned out, so I forced myself to finish.

So anyways, yeah, lots of potential, who cares if it's fake or real, but crappy writing ruined it, it could have been so much better in more capable hands. Ah well.

I read this when I was a young teen and it scared the shit out of me. This time around, it didn't scare me but is still very creepy. Also, if your house tells you to get out, listen. Get out.