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. Sarah believes the amulet has something to do with the rising body count, but no one will believe her. 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. After long and tedious days on the assembly line, she returns home to care for her corpselike husband while enduring her loathsome and hateful mother-in-law, Jo. After her soldier husband Dean is disfigured in a terrible rifle range accident, Sarah Howell finds her dreary life made. 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. "McDowell has a flair for the gruesome." - Washington Post Obtain The Amulet by any means necessary." - Too Much Horror Fiction In a possible case of first-timer nerves, The Amulet is another doomed town book patterned after Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot, but McDowell’s deep feel for Alabama makes all the difference. Michael McEachern McDowell (J December 27, 1999) was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as 'the finest writer of paperback originals in America today'. "One of the genre's most underrated writers. "ne of the best writers of horror in this or any other country." - Peter Straub
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