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The Amulet
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Horror
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Publisher's Summary
When a rifle range accident leaves Dean Howell disfigured and in a vegetative state, his wife Sarah finds her dreary life in Pine Cone, Alabama made even worse. After long and tedious days on the assembly line, she returns home to care for her corpse-like husband while enduring her loathsome and hateful mother-in-law, Jo. Jo blames the entire town for her son's mishap, and when she gives a strange piece of jewelry to the man she believes most responsible, a series of gruesome deaths is set in motion. Sarah believes the amulet has something to do with the rising body count, but no one will believe her. As the inexplicable murders continue, Sarah and her friend Becca Blair have no choice but to track down the amulet themselves, before it's too late...
Michael McDowell (1950-1999) is best known for his screenplays to the films Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, but he was also the author of several excellent and underrated Southern Gothic horror novels, of which The Amulet (1979) was the first. Originally published as a pulp paperback, now scarce and long out-of-print, McDowell's grimly humorous and delightfully horrific novel returns in this edition, which features a new introduction by Poppy Z. Brite.
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- MontiLee
- 09-30-19
Another gem from Michael McDowell
Great narrator for an over the top Southern Gothic horror story. Just when you think you can't have anymore fun, it kicks up another gear.
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- Kathryn Day
- 05-01-19
Wasn't Disappointed
It was paced rather well. Just when you started getting bored with all the talking and mundane happenings it switched back to the supernatural happenings. Did get kinda gorey.
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- Mark P.
- 05-24-18
All McDowell is good!
I believe this was McDowell's first novel of southern gothic horror, a genre that this man did better than anyone else. This is probably McDowell at his trashiest and most violent. The story revolves around an amulet that's passed around to various people in the small town of Pine Cone, Alabama. As you can imagine, anyone who possesses the amulet gets killed in some horrifying fashion, and the deaths get more violent and more ridiculous as the book progresses. It's not quite as refined as it would be in his next few works, but McDowell also introduces the bickering southern families that would become a staple of his work. The relationship between Sarah Howell and her angry, mean-spirited, manipulative mother-in-law Jo Howell (you will love to hate her) really sets the stage for his next few books, all of which are even better than this one even if some of them aren't quite as fun. This is like one of your favorite horror B-movies in novel form. Check this one out!
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- Christine Ehren
- 01-07-18
A fresh hell
This was a different kind of horror story. It was well crafted, the story felt fresh, and the elements of setting & character were given the kind of attention that makes me feel like I've stepped through a dark looking glass, not a hastily bent funhouse mirror. The narrator gave those well fleshed characters good voices for their place, time & impending tragic demise. Don't get fond of anybody, just saying.
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- Midwestbonsai
- 01-23-18
🏆🎧 ABR Reviewer's Choice Award Winner
After being wounded in a military training exercise, Dean Howell returns home to his wife and mother in a vegetative state, his face hidden behind layers of bandages. While Sarah administers to his treatment, in addition to working full-time at the local munitions factory (the same factory that built the rifle that exploded in Dean's face), his bitter, resentful, and domineering mother, Jo, plots revenge. Jo blames the entire town of Pine Cone, Alabama for her son's debilitating injuries and sets into motion a series of extraordinary murders. The titular amulet, a cursed (or, perhaps, possessed) item gifted by Jo to the man who failed to hire Dean into the factory and save him from being drafted into the Vietnam War, is the only thing connecting the otherwise unrelated and inexplicable deaths. As the bodies begin to pile up, Sarah realizes the amulet lays at the center of it all, and she must find it before any more killings can occur.
Originally published in 1979, Valancourt Books reprinted The Amulet for a new generation of readers a few years ago, and this past August released this audiobook edition narrated by Audie Award winner Julia Whelan. Whelan does an excellent job bringing Michael McDowell's material to life, giving dialogue a soft and welcoming Southern lilt. Her reading of McDowell's wonderful writing held me in rapt attention the whole way through, and this is a top-notch production all around.
McDowell is an author that has been on my radar for a while now, thanks largely to Charlene at Char's Horror Corner, who has positively reviewed a number of the author's works as resurrected by Valancourt Books. Huge props, too, to Valancourt, because now that I've read McDowell for myself I will most certainly be reading as many more of his works as I can get my hands on.
Despite being set during the late 1960s, The Amulet is far from anachronistic. I've read plenty of 80s novels that felt far more dated than McDowell's (even Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings, published only a few years prior to this book, felt far old than its original 1973 pub date), and thanks to the human factors at play here -- the family drama, friendships, and racial tensions between the white and black sections of Pine Cone -- The Amulet feels just as relevant in 2018 regardless of its nearly forty-year -old history. McDowell has an ear for dialogue, and the Alabama-born author successfully captures the regional patois and atmosphere of the region. His characters are believable, each of them inhabiting their own lives within these pages, and we're given just enough detail to care about them before they're yanked away from us. None of Pine Cone's residents are safe (not even the children, and there are several child deaths depicted throughout, so fair warning), and the diabolical piece of jewelry is a sort of traveling gun drawing them all toward danger. The body count here is significant, and McDowell does not pull any punches as he dispatches entire families, friends, and neighbors in delightfully creative and gruesome ways. In fact, I suspect the Final Destination film franchise owes a large debt, and a number of thanks, to this particular novel.
The Amulet is a wonderful and engrossing work of quiet, small-town horror, and McDowell does an incredible job building this story, ratcheting up the tension and taking us from one twisted murder to another as we follow this cursed object across Pine Cone and into the lives of those unfortunate enough to claim the strange necklace as their own. As his first published novel, The Amulet is an excellent introduction to McDowell's work for newcomers such as myself. I can promise you now it certainly will not be my last, and I'm already debating which Michael McDowell book I should dive into next.
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- Randolph
- 01-08-18
Guilty pleasure
I enjoyed this book in the same guilty way I enjoy looking at a totally destroyed car after a bad wreck. It could be considered too formulaic by some but it kept me going and I wasn’t sure how it would end. In that respect, it was good horror. Good characters.
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- Dan Morales
- 02-16-19
Amazing performance by Julia Whelan
One of the most compelling stories I've heard in years. Narrator should win an award.
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- Jon Weimer
- 12-11-17
Just as good 38 years later.
You probably have never heard of Michael McDowell, he died at a really young age. But if you're a fan of the film Beetlejuice, then you know his work. Out of print for nearly 30 years, his first novel is a masterwork of a field he created: Southern Gothic horror. without him, they'd be no Suki Stackhouse.
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- Chantal Noordeloos
- 03-19-20
Strong start but gets tedious
The story itself is interesting. Nothing mind blowing, but with good writing this could have been a very entertaining novel. Unfortunately it’s not very well written, and though the author is good at writing explicit gore (that part was well done) he is terrible with character development or plot. The gore gets very boring after a while and all that you’re left with is 2 dimensional silly characters that are all too stupid to poop. They’re not very consistent in their personalities either and tend to ramble on and on. Despite the mature content of this book the writing style actually makes it come across a bit childish. It’s a shame because if the author had taken as much time to really work on the story and the characters as he did on writing unrealistic death scenes (I mean: why doesn’t anyone fight back?) this would have been a truly awesome novel. Also: why was Dean evil? Nothing indicated that he was? It was all just so flimsy. The idea of the mother in law who was nasty would have been fantastic if she wasn’t such a flat and dull character. This book was a real disappointment
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-04-19
Good plotline, lacking in descriptiveness.
The storyline was good, the characters were interesting, but the writing was very cut and dried, lacking imagery. As the plot drew to its conclusion the storyline failed as well. It was interesting enough to listen to, bit lacked some depth and intricacy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-02-19
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- Raph
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Wonderfully wicked.
Absolutely brilliant tale. McDowell never failed to deliver compelling characters and riveting plots. If you’re after a quick but thrilling read you can’t go wrong with this.
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- Hannah
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Powerful
What a gem. Mind the obvious pun. I had read another book of the author called Blackwater. Just as exciting and mysterious. A great read