Plagiarism: taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Changing the setting from New York to New Hampshire or Northern Massachusetts and changing the killers from fathers to eldest brothers but using every other detail from an actual event which was then made into a movie...AND NOT EVEN SAYING "HEY THANKS" BUT INSTEAD CLAIMING YOU CAME UP WITH THE STORY AFTER VISITING A HAUNTED HOUSE?????????????
THIS IS 100% PLAGIARIZED!
I am considering removing this from our collection. I'm mad I even ordered it.
Please Google Amityville Horror and read the NUMEROUS sources about this real murder, possessed home, and adaptations. I THOUGHT that's what I'd be reading: an updated version of the story for my kids' age (cell phones, TV, the internet...), but instead found the slight changes to the story annoying. Imagine then reading the author's acknowledgements and finding her claim this is an ORIGINAL STORY! That's a flat out lie.
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