The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror

1977 • 315 pages

Ratings40

Average rating3.3

15

The horror classic that I'd never gotten round to reading. I suspect it would have made more of an impact on me if I'd read it in my teens because reading it at forty-one, it all seems faintly ridiculous. I laughed out loud at several points and was left feeling more bemused than terrified. Still, the writing was good and the intertwining narratives well crafted. Definitely one of those rare cases of the movie being better than the book.

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