This is the first time I’ve read a book for Halloween. I was familiar with the story, having previously watched the films, but never read the book until now!It was scarier than the films and reads like an addictive novel. Much has been said about whether these events were a hoax, but I don’t really care. The Amityville Horror does what it says, and provides the scares. It gave me goosebumps. I wasn’t a fan of my house making strange creaking sounds at night while reading either!The book follows ...

Trick or Treat of a different kind for spooktober!!!The true story of the haunting and supernatural events at Amityville House inspired a book and the book then inspired a film, as the events at Long Island gripped a nation. However, the original book blurb said, “A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits…”, turned out to be nothing more than a horror story concocted over a few bottles of wine. Yes here we have the ...

112 Ocean Ave. Amityville, Long Island, New York. Spooky!!Flies, slime, black water, foul rotten smell, static sound when calling a priest, waking up at 3:15 AM every day... 😬 Why stay? 28 days is way too long!I end up reading online articles and watching Youtube videos because of the controversy that this story is a hoax. The funny thing is, I didn't know it was "real" and thought the author had a unique way of telling the story like a true crime novel. I really liked it. Overall, this book wa...

I mean it just wasn’t that good or it was my mood! I enjoyed the movie as a kid. I don’t know! Sigh…


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I confess, I am SO glad to be done with this book. I had to take it in just a couple chapters at a time, it just felt so overwhelmingly dark. The fact that the demons (whatever they were) didn't just throw things around the house to creep the family out, they actually affected the family members' individual personalities and seemed to truly bring out the worst in their humanity. This aspect, to me, was the most disturbing. Though I never plan to read this book again and will promptly be donating...

I will start this review at the end . . . or, what I did after the end.I knew some about The Amityville Horror from pop culture. I don’t think I have ever seen the movie all the way through, but I have seen parts of it. I am familiar with the house with windows like Jack O’ Lantern eyes. I knew it was a tale of possession and haunting. A story of terrors beyond imagination – terrors that only usually exist in the imagination of horror writers and filmmakers. But this really happened!Or . . . did...

Loved it. More than I should have, probably. A brilliant way to write a novel (yes, let's just admit this is a novel). The matter-of-fact, journalistic tone used to describe horrific events expertly aided the 'realism' façade, and it made for great storytelling. Toward the end the pacing went off and turned into kitchen sink horror (just throw everything out there!) but it still worked. The ending 'Afterward' was genius and is likely why this classic endures and continues to inspire a whole subg...

Let's pause for a minute and laugh out loud at the fact that this stupid book was in the nonfiction section of my library. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA HAHAHA HA. HA. HAAAAAAOK, I think that's good. Wait....HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA OH MAN! HAHA'OK...That's not why it gets one lousy star anyway. It gets one star because I think it was written by a twelve year old. The writing was so bad that it distracted me from the absolutely ridiculous story. There was just no life in the story at all. I mean, the gho...

This "true" story is about as scary as a Ke$ha/Charlie Sheen lovechild. It's terrifying... but it's not the baby's fault. It was created out of a union of glitter-vomit and Tiger Blood. Mama SLutz is an attention whore just in it for the money and notoriety, and Daddy is a talentless hack who just spouts random words emphatically and claims they make sense. It's like it was written by a 12 year old with ADD and then edited by someone who speaks English as a 2nd language... and started taking the...

OK, folks, for the last time, here's the real story. 1. On 13 November 1974, a murder occurred in the home known as "High Hopes," located at what was then 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York. The victims of the crime were the DeFeo family: Ronald Sr., Louise, and four of their five children; Dawn, Allison, Mark and John. 2. Ronald "Butch" DeFeo, Jr., eldest son of the DeFeo family, burst into a local bar in town that night around 6:30PM, asking for help. 3. Butch DeFeo was later tried for and...