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She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband, her (utterly fearless) daughter, and a finicky French bulldog named Bridget Jones. In her spare time, Ostow blogs with the National Book Award-winning literacy initiative. (In a good way.) Her novel family was called a “Favorite Book of 2011” by Liz Burns at School Library Journal, and her illustrated novel, So Punk Rock (and Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother), was a I turns out, writing a ghost story is almost more terrifying than reading one. Micol Ostow has written dozens of books for children, tweens, and teens, but Amity is her first foray into horror. As she’ll do again.Īlternating between parallel narratives, Amity is a tense and terrifying tale suggested by true-crime events that will satisfy even the most demanding horror fan.Īges 15+ | Publisher: EgmontUSA | Aug. She will use Connor and Gwen to bring about a bloody end as she’s done before. She is a living force, bent on manipulating her inhabitants to her twisted will. She knows Amity is evil and she must get her family out, but who would ever believe her?Īmity isn’t just a house. Gwen has lurid visions of corpses that aren’t there and bleeding blisters that disappear in the blink of an eye.
Connor’s nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons and destruction. Ten years later, Gwen’s family moves to Amity for a fresh start after she’s recovered from a psychotic break.īut something is not right about this secluded house. For fans of Stephen King and American Horror Story, a gruesome thriller suggested by the events of the Amityville Horror.Ĭonnor’s family moves to Amity to escape shady business deals.
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