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Post by andydecker on Jun 12, 2020 15:06:50 GMT
Michael McDowell – The Amulet (Avon Books, 1979, 340p.) 
A GIFT OF EVIL.
Rachel Coppage was the first to clasp it round her neck. To feel the power grow within her. Moments later, her husband and children were consumed in a raging housefire …
A POLICEMAN FOUND IT IN THE ASHES …
He didn't live long enough to fear it. And there were others: Ruby, of Ruby's House of beauty, whose jealousy of a client was magnified until she did a complete makeover … Audrey the babysitter, who suddenly lost her patience and put the washing machine on deathcycle …
IT PASSED FROM THE DEAD TO THE LIVING …
From neighbour to unsuspecting neighbour, lover to lover. Townsfolk began dying in horrible, unspeakable ways. Nobody knew how. Nobody knew why. Then Sarah Howell began to suspect. In mounting terror, the vital link in the frightening chain of events …
THE AMULET. FIRST YOU POSSESS IT, THEN IT POSSESSES YOU.
McDowell's first published novel. Not the most original concept in the annals of horror literature, but is is the execution that works. (Or not.) |
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