{"id":416,"date":"2003-06-18T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2003-06-18T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=416"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:02:46","slug":"re-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Re-Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis past week have been re-reading “The Amityville Horror” … the first horror novel I ever read. Amazing how time (and age) can chage your perspective on certain things. I first read this book when I was about 11 or 12 years old and it scared the shit out of me. This book is one of the reasons that I love “horror” so much. So, I must confess that I am disappointed to find out just how overdone and silly the writing is and just how ludicrous the “actual events” that take place are. I love a good ghost story and I hate that this one hasn’t stood the test of time. And, no. I don’t believe that anything described in the book ever happened (except that the Lutz family did live in the house briefly).<\/p>\n

But, no matter how scary “The Amityville Horror” was the first time I read it … it never equaled the shock to the system that Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” gave me just a few years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past week have been re-reading “The Amityville Horror” … the first horror novel I ever read. Amazing how time (and age) can chage your perspective on certain things. I first read this book when I was about 11 or 12 years old and it scared the shit out of me. This book is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-6I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11253,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/11253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}