Amityville Awakens

Robert P. Ottone is the two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Triangle and There’s Something Sinister in Centerfield. He is also the author of The Vile Thing We Created as well as the collections Her Infernal Name and Tear Me Open: Fears Unwrapped. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, where he enjoys cigars, video games, film and a good cocktail.

"You've never seen an Amityville tale like this. Original and terrifying." —Stephen Cognetti, creator of the Hell House LLC franchise"Ottone turns his considerable talents to one of America's most famous houses. With deft assurance, he details the increasing depravities overtaking the local populace. He propels his story from daylit unease to full-scale apocalyptic horror. The result is a contemporary epic, one that balances unflinching horror with deep humanity." —John Langan, author of Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions and The Fisherman"Ottone amplifies the lore of the Amityville house by unleashing the home's insidious and vile entity on the two towns. Unrelenting and gritty, Amityville Awakens is a harrowing tale of evil battling against the strength of teenage unrequited love." —Amanda Headlee, author of Till We Become Monsters and Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face"Robert Ottone ably demonstrates that the obvious solution to a supernatural problem is not always the best one, in a bold and brutal filmic novel which takes Amityville further than it has ever gone before." —John Linwood Grant, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of Where All is Night, and Starless"Remodeling the most haunted house on the east coast, Ottone uses a sledgehammer to expose a nightmare. It’s chilling to be reminded: All that could stand between a town’s future and a lurking evil might be a skim of dried plaster." —Meg Ripley, author of Necrology"Robert P. Ottone’s novel is a supernatural runaway freight train that smashes a tired franchise back into life with spilled blood, heart, and relevancy." —John Collins, author of Altars in Abandoned Houses and The Leeds Point Horror"Amityville Awakens realizes horrors that were languishing unnoticed in plain sight since 1977. It took a talent like Robert Ottone to set them loose. Emotionally grounded, and very much the real thing." —Michael Cisco, author of The Divinity Student, Black Brane, and Pest"Ottone creates a worthy and chilling successor to the Amityville fictions, bringing a creeping sense of dread to familiar lore." —Stephen Volk, author of The Dark Masters Trilogy and The Good Unknown"Dark, suffocating, and utterly absorbing, Amityville Awakens grabbed me by the throat and dragged me beneath its floorboards. Ottone invites us back into Amityville, a place we know we should not enter, but he makes it impossible to resist returning home." —Cat Scully, author of Below the Grand Hotel"Ottone is a mastermind. Amityville Awakens is a powerful new piece of the Amityville canon that will have you frantically googling and revisiting the rest of this cursed house’s mythos, because in Ottone’s expert hands, you’re never quite sure what’s fact or fiction. I loved this beautifully rendered ensemble cast, and I was genuinely goosebumped by the set pieces. You’re gonna love it. It’s a fuckin blast." —Sam Rebelein, Bram Stoker award-nominated creator of Renfield County