Bandage Mummy: It's only his head that's been bandaged up, but Dean is outright compared to a mummy more than once.In fact, the only reason she found it at all is because she was going through her dead sister-in-law's jewelry case (under the pretense of making sure Gussie didn't steal anything.) Asshole Victim: Dorothy is a rather unpleasant woman even before getting her hands on the amulet.Whomever possesses it is compelled to kill, and in turn is killed in an equally violent fashion. Alliterative Name: Becca Blair, Sarah's best friend.Sarah must race against the amulet's malevolent influence to stop the tide of death, before Pine Cone is nothing but a bloodbath. When Jo gives a strange amulet to the man she believes most responsible, it sets off a gruesome series of events. When a rifle explodes in the face of Dean Howell, leaving him disfigured and in a vegetative state, his mother Jo blames everyone in the small town of Pine Cone, Alabama, where the rifle was manufactured, including Dean's wife Sarah, whose only contribution in the rifle manufacturing plant was affixing two screws to the stock.
The Amulet is a 1979 horror novel by Michael McDowell. 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. 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
"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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