Amity
by Micol Ostow
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Pub Date Aug 26 2014 | Archive Date Feb 04 2015
Egmont USA | EgmontUSA
Description
For fans of Stephen King and American Horror Story, a gruesome thriller suggested by the events of the Amityville Horror.
Connor's family moves to Amity to escape shady business deals. Ten years later, Gwen's family moves to Amity for a fresh start after she's recovered from a psychotic break.
But something is not right about this secluded house. Connor's nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons and destruction. Dreams he kind of likes. Gwen has lurid visions of corpses that aren't there and bleeding blisters that disappear in the blink of an eye. She knows Amity is evil and she must get her family out, but who would ever believe her?
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 bloody end as she's done before. As she'll do again.
Alternating between parallel narratives, Amity is a tense and terrifying tale suggested by true-crime events that will satisfy even the most demanding horror fan.
A Note From the Publisher
Releases simultaneously in electronic book format (ISBN 978-1-60684-380-2)
Advance Praise
Praise for family:
"dark, mesmerizing, and hazy" --Publishers Weekly
"Ellen Hopkins fans will appreciate the use of verse to tell the gruesome story." -VOYA
"Terrifyingly good . . . and incredibly terrifying." -Lauren Myracle, New York Times best-selling author of ttyl and Shine
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781606841563 |
| PRICE | $17.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Trevor O, Librarian
I love that more quality horror is entering the YA arena, of which Amity is a part of! It's not a retelling of the famous Amityville Horror, but was inspired by it. Sometimes a good deal on a home just isn't worth taking the chance. The books structure, two stories taking place 10 years apart with plenty of parallels is masterfully pulled off, and the writing is gorgeous.
Michelle M, Reviewer
A couple of years ago, Teenage Daughter came home from the library with a copy of Family by Micol Ostow. I'm not sure if she ever got around to reading that book or not, but I was intrigued by the story. When I saw that the same author had taken on the Amityville Horror in the new young adult novel Amity, I knew I wanted to read it. It's been a very long time since I've seen the movie and I'm not sure if I ever did read the original book, so I can't vouch for how closely the details in Amity match the origianl story. It seems to me that she just took the idea and ran with it, and she went in a much more interesting direction than the original hoax took. Take a notorious haunted house and rework its history to literally bring the house to life, then weave that together with the stories of two disturbed teens living in the house ten years apart. It's a wonderfully creepy little book, a good choice for when you're in the mood for something quick and spooky.
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