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The Amityville Bukkake

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There’s a porn crew on their way to the infamous Amityville house. Why? To film a bukkake of course. Little do they know, some unexpected guests will be cumming too.

The great Edward Lee, R.J. Benetti, and Judith Sonnet have put their depraved minds together to give you a story brimming with blood, flies, poop, murder, suicide, demons, ghosts, and, most importantly, jizz!!

“This is sure to raise some eyebrows.”

-Edward Lee

146 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 10, 2024

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Edward Lee

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Edward Lee is an American novelist specializing in the field of horror, and has authored 40 books, more than half of which have been published by mass-market New York paperback companies such as Leisure/Dorchester, Berkley, and Zebra/Kensington. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee for his story "Mr. Torso," and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass-market anthologies, including THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF 2000, Pocket's HOT BLOOD series, and the award-wining 999. Several of his novels have sold translation rights to Germany, Greece, and Romania. He also publishes quite actively in the small-press/limited-edition hardcover market; many of his books in this category have become collector's items. While a number of Lee's projects have been optioned for film, only one has been made, HEADER, which was released on DVD to mixed reviews in June, 2009, by Synapse Films.

Lee is particularly known for over-the-top occult concepts and an accelerated treatment of erotic and/or morbid sexual imagery and visceral violence.

He was born on May 25, 1957 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Bowie, Maryland. In the late-70s he served in the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division, in Erlangen, West Germany, then, for a short time, was a municipal police officer in Cottage City, Maryland. Lee also attended the University of Maryland as an English major but quit in his last semester to pursue his dream of being a horror novelist. For over 15 years, he worked as the night manager for a security company in Annapolis, Maryland, while writing in his spare time. In 1997, however, he became a full-time writer, first spending several years in Seattle and then moving to St. Pete Beach, Florida, where he currently resides.

Of note, the author cites as his strongest influence horror legend H. P. Lovecraft; in 2007, Lee embarked on what he calls his "Lovecraft kick" and wrote a spate of novels and novellas which tribute Lovecraft and his famous Cthulhu Mythos. Among these projects are THE INNSWICH HORROR, "Trolley No. 1852," HAUNTER OF THE THRESHOLD, GOING MONSTERING, "Pages Torn From A Travel Journal," and "You Are My Everything." Lee promises more Lovecraftian work on the horizon.

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Profile Image for Corrina Morse.
831 reviews138 followers
June 8, 2024
That title!! That cover!! Those authors!! You just know you're going to be in for one hell of a ride with that line up!! The book itself is beautifully set out, from the gooey looking cover, to the chapter headings, from the Table of Cumtaints, to the author profiles, and my book even came with the added bonus of a kind of certificate of authenticity, in that several of the pages were stuck together, which I thought was a nice touch! 😉

This book was a lot of fun from the off, tense too. Creepy and crude in equal measures, and rife with hilarious sexual innuendos. You won't want to put it down (and you won't be able to because the pages have a tendency to stick to you like glue, or something….).

Joey, a kind of Ron Jeremy character, is the boss, porn producer extraordinaire, and brains behind this particular job. He's brought along his best stars. Lois, an Aussie porn star with bad hair who will do pretty much anything on camera. Shauna, who has low self esteem despite her stunning good looks, but that might have a lot to do with her asshole boyfriend, Shooter! (This guy made me so fucking angry!) And lastly, Shooter himself, who is particularly skilled in the money shot department, he can literally shoot a juicy wad far and wide, whenever needed.

With their collective “talents” the group are off on a particularly special shoot, an exclusive request, at the one and only Amityville horror house! Sombrack is their employer and he has particular fantasies that he is all too happy to pay for, fantasies he likes to watch being enacted out in deeply sinister places, to satiate his sick pleasures. Murder houses are his kink!

Biff and Nate are young, horny college kids who have managed to get parts as extras for the Bukkake element of the filming at the house. The nerves are getting the better of Biff, he's worried he won't be able to perform, so goes in search of a little something to help him. Stumbling across some disturbing yet strangely arousing websites, he thinks he might just be able to pull it off when the time comes, something that will ensure he stays dead hard and milking bucketloads, giving Shooter a run for his money and filling him with cocky confidence!

Things get strange real quick, things get gross, and weird and depraved and the house instantly makes them extra horny, it possesses their sex drives, making them demonic with lust, and they start to hallucinate and do weird shit. They are all about to be royally fucked, quite literally and in so many different positions!! The house wants blood, by any other bodily fluids possible and it's not shy about getting them!

A hilarious and creepy tense build up to a sticky, lumpy, coagulated, stomach churning, cum drenched climaXXX. I fucking loved it! 😂
Profile Image for Scott  Neumann.
98 reviews180 followers
March 18, 2024
What the hell did I just read!
I'm a fan of Edward Lee even his extreme stuff, after reading this I will still read his stuff. This though is not for everyone (it really wasn't for me either), but if you like extreme horror (with an emphasis on extreme) well this is for you.
The story starts with a porn producer/director bringing his three best actors to the Amityville Horror house to shoot a porno that was commissioned by some eccentric billionaire who has a taste for the esoteric. Well as expected things take a turn for the worse.

Trigger Warning...
Full of extreme sexual content with an emphasis on bodily fluids, sexual battery, sexual abuse and domestic abuse.

Well if that's for you, you'll be sure to have a good time. I didn't.
Profile Image for Asia Guerrero.
Author 10 books104 followers
April 1, 2024
💦💦💦

What a gross and fun read!! The authors really blew this one out of the park. But remind me to never visit the Amityville house!
Profile Image for renee w.
273 reviews
March 14, 2024
4.5 🩸💦⭐️ I was lucky enough to receive an arc of this book. Three of horrors greatest have come together to write the Amityville Bukkake. Four porn stars go by boat to record a film. Little do they know that the house has a story of its own to tell. The story is perverse, and absolutely hysterical. I highly recommend to those who can handle the extreme side of Books.

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62 reviews3 followers
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April 24, 2025
0⭐️ nothing good about this book. Georgia where is the bleach, I'm going to need to bath in it 🤮
Profile Image for Phrique.
Author 11 books122 followers
August 10, 2024
THAT’S NOT SNOW, THAT’S NOT SNOW AT ALL. (Last time I was going to be able to say it, I feel better now.)

I’m a different person than I was before this book. I miss the more innocent version of me tbh. I don’t want to be brain washed but if I could get a gentle brain rinse, just to get some of these mental images out of my head. That would be nice. 😊 You want an intro? Here’s my intro. I wrote down 2 words that i picked up from this book that will never ever be able to be deleted from my brain as much as I’ve tried.
Dick-kabob & Spermboarding. There, I have passed on the curse. Enjoy.

Quick synopsis:
A porn crew decides to up the ante by choosing a more risqué set location for their next bukkake scene, because there’s one thing bukkake aficionados are known for and that’s having a discerning eye for detail. Which location tho? Perhaps some place well ventilated with good drainage? Of course not. The infamous Amityville house that claimed the lives of so many, that some believe to be a portal to hell?

So having just read Magick and loved it, this seemed like a perfect sequel to it or at least was in the same multiverse to me. This trio of authors took a pretty radical subject and had a lot of fun with it. Had a lot of fun with the absurdity and the subject matter, but most importantly…the kills. I am both envious and also very frightened of their minds after this read, even though I enjoyed every minute of it. Then to have it all build up to that…climax. I…I’m not really sure why I didn’t see that ending c…You know what no. I’ll leave the wordplay to them, I feel more dry heaves coming on. Job well done, everyone involved in writing and reading this should be both proud and ashamed!
Profile Image for Kiera ☠.
355 reviews130 followers
April 28, 2024
I was really excited to read this one and it definitely proved to be a fun read. I have to admit though, it fell a little flat for me. I did appreciate the revenge arc at the end because I did find this read to be pretty heavy in misogyny. I guess that shouldn’t come as a surprise due to the title but I found it a bit excessive.

Overall it was still a fun read. Read a lot like a cheesy B-Movie which I don’t mean as a bad thing. Gave me 70/80s porno vibes but make it extreme, make it Splatterpunk. If that sounds like something you’d enjoy, I’d still recommend this book. I just wish personally it pulled back on the misogyny and leaned more into the porn.
Profile Image for Paige Ray.
1,139 reviews72 followers
March 25, 2024
Shooting a porno in the famous Amityville Horror House…what could possibly go wrong??? You might even see Ronnie Defeo himself.

This was such a fun read. I laughed practically nonstop from start to finish. I’ll definitely read this again when I need a good laugh. The writing was clever and funny as hell. There were some great puns and one liners in there that I’ll never forget.
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15 reviews
September 10, 2025
I hacked Hannes his account so he definitely didn’t read this. That being said, don’t judge me (the hacker) for enjoying this silly nasty depraved book.
Profile Image for Lisa Lee.
588 reviews40 followers
May 30, 2024
A Bibliophilia Templum review
https://bibliophiliatemplum.wordpress.com/2024/05/30/the-amityville-bukkake/


First off, the title is (unfortunately) completely relevant, but necessarily for the reason you think it is. But maybe. Second, your trigger warning is the author list. There is an abundance of vile, graphic subject matter (including real-life nastiness) the likes of which these authors are known for. Third and most important, extreme horror fans rejoice! This book is for you!

The Amityville Bukkake is a nasty and brilliant Extreme Horror novel brought to you by authors Edward Lee, R.J. Benetti, and Judith Sonnet. This gruesome and brutal pornographic homage to the Amityville legend is uncomfortably compelling and blatantly boundary-crossing. However, the story is insanely solid, and it has a good amount of relevant Amityville house history and lore incorporated into it. The effect is upsettingly impressive. But do remember this is extreme horror and not for the squeamish—or those offended by unpleasant characters doing unpleasant things (because there are reviews that complained about that).

A twistedly fun and grotesque reading experience, The Amityville Bukkake is full of irreverent humor, colorful characters, sex stuff, demons, bugs, brutality, and body fluids. A highly recommended read for hardcore extreme horror fans.
Profile Image for Christina Pfeiffer.
405 reviews42 followers
March 18, 2024
Um… how do I even start this off? There’s a straw scene that makes me never want to use one again, a facial mask that one wants, and so much more.

Shooter, Lois, Joey, and Shauna set out to make a smut film for a millionaire named Sombrack. Oh, and it’s Amityville House. When the extras show up, things really get… wet? Sticky? Dirty? Is there any truth to the rumors that the house is haunted or is it just flim flam?

These three are absolutely insane and I love it! This is brilliant from beginning to end. Lee’s trademark names for anatomy had me rolling (a vagina being referred to a “pecker-silo”, come on! Perfection!) Interestingly, while three very different authors collaborated on this story, it is 100% seamless. I have read everything by Benetti, many by Lee and a few by Sonnet but I couldn’t tell you who wrote what, except the anatomy names.

Filled with more than enough laughs, bodily fluids, and kills, THE AMITYVILLE BUKKAKE is one party not to be missed.

An astounding collaboration and a HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMEND. 5/5
Profile Image for Carrie_reads_horror.
113 reviews14 followers
April 25, 2024
What can I say about this novella?
It was fun and dare I say MOIST.. 🤢
Profile Image for Delia González Ochoa.
138 reviews3 followers
November 7, 2025
creeeo es mi primera vez leyendo extreme horror? la premisa es medio ridícula pero te da lo que promete y utiliza muy bien todo el lore que rodea la casa.
esta muy gore, muy sexual, muy mezcla de estas cosas. a ratos me dio miedo de verdad y me encanta que lo sexoso no le reste al terror.
hay por ahí un personaje con un kink oscurón que toca temas muy reales y que podría ser límite para mucha gente tons ojo ahí.
esta historia está escrita por 2 hombres y una morra trans y quisiera saber de quién fue la decisión hacer de los personajes masculinos taaan sexistas. creo tiene que ver más con un intento de personajes "realistas" que con el sexismo de les escritores pero igual me hubiera gustado una raya menos.
fantástica lectura y recomiendo pa quien tenga buen estómago y muchas ganas de una mezcla equilibrada de sexo, porno y terror <3.
Profile Image for The Beloved Bibliophile.
1,689 reviews
September 18, 2024
I had this on my TBR for awhile and the book was just looking me in my face and finally I gave it a try and my god it’s so fucking good, holy crap! A splatterpunk masterpiece with everything you’d expect, and there’s cum too and lots of it.

A porn crew is going to shoot a bukkake movie in the Amityville house..what can go wrong, especially when you unknowingly invite demons and the spiritual remains of those that killed and were murdered there? This has got big dicks, huge tits, hot cum, flies, blood, burned cocks, poop, and everything else you’d expect from these authors. It’s a nasty business!
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Profile Image for Amanda Noel.
129 reviews
December 28, 2024
that was absolutely disgusting 🤮 that brought me close to feeling like I was reading “no one rides for free.” A fun mix of “true” crime, extreme, and absolutely bizarre.
Already a huge fan of Judith, can’t wait to check out the other 2 others works now!
9 reviews
January 14, 2025
The story felt kinda aimless, just shuffling along from one scene to the next, but the descriptions were top notch and made me gag a couple times
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104 reviews4 followers
January 20, 2025
This had me questioning what the fuck I just read... I like these authors but this one was anticlimatic and repetitive. Definitely disgusting and delivers shock value though.
8 reviews
January 25, 2025
wild

Prepare yourself for craziness! Funny parts and intense parts but I had to know what was going to happen!! Insane
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311 reviews
February 20, 2025
The only Amityville book worth reading. I laughed, I cringed, I got scared — it was everything I wanted it to be!
Profile Image for angie_bookrecs.
283 reviews49 followers
March 10, 2025
I had high hopes for this one, but I'm sad to say that this was boring as fuck.
Profile Image for Aiden Messer.
Author 32 books132 followers
June 16, 2025
Dear god..What the hell did I just read?
(that's a compliment, obviously)
Profile Image for Aarón Furey.
9 reviews1 follower
January 16, 2025
This was an awful book but somehow it was entertaining to read.

I get it’s an explicit novel. I’m fine with raw descriptions and acts. But why settle only describing boobs? It felt repetitive and derivative. I’m sure this is a product of straight culture but damn. Can we at least get another description beyond giant tits?

The setting in the Amityville house was fun, but I felt like it took too long to get to the actual bukkake and when it happened it was too quickly and anticlimactic.

If there’s a gay version of this I’d totally give it a shot.
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24 reviews1 follower
April 14, 2024
good fun

Could not put it down. From oh sh@t to, just deserves. This book spewed forth a bukkake of entertainment. Thank you three for the great read.
Profile Image for Richard Longmore.
188 reviews
April 7, 2024
They say to never judge a book by it's cover. Sometimes that's good advice. But when that cover includes the names Edward Lee and Judith Sonnet along with the word Bukkake and the location of Amityville...well... maybe you can trust that one.

You aren't coming to this book for flowery prose and you certainly don't expect worldbuilding that drops you into a whole new universe that you could never have foreseen. Being a fan of both Edward Lee and Judith Sonnet, I knew what I was getting into, and I got exactly what was expected. A basic understanding of the "Amityville Horror" tale is helpful to have in advance, but not necessary as the (DeFao) murders are discussed as well as the (Lutz) books/movies that followed.

As we begin, a small crew and cast of a porn company are driving to their next taping location. They have a wealthy benefactor who has very specific requests, and this company works to film the exact scenes and locations that they ask for.

Ed Lee's Flesh Gothic is touched upon as is Judith Sonnet's Magick - both earlier tales of locations that are haunted by vengeful, yet surprisingly horny phantoms. This is a fun little touch for fans, but doesn't create an issue for those who aren't familiar with these books, as it's not crucial to understanding the story. Mostly because you can pretty much figure out the story just by the title. You know where it's going. You know how it will end. But it will gross you out in dozens of ways getting there, which is part of the fun of "extreme horror". The groan/laugh/cringe/head shake just goes on and on, page after page filled with talented writers trying to one-up each other in how they can mix sex and death in new and, frankly, ridiculous ways.

If you look at the title and say, "This sounds immature and stupid" - you are right.
If you look at the title and say, "This sounds fucking hilarious" - you are right.

It's all perspective, so make up your mind based on that. If you think it sounds funny and you're not held back by trigger warnings far too numerous to list in full here, it's a solid recommendation. It accomplishes exactly what you expect from the talent involved and the title they have chosen.

P.S. I mention Ed Lee and Judith Sonnet as I'm quite familiar with both of their work. I have never read R.J. Benetti before and will need to resolve that. But if I was to say it "feels like" any of the author's work, it feels very much like Edward Lee's style of gross, redneck, supernatural erotica more than a Judith Sonnet novella - if I were a betting man, I'd guess the goal was to keep it in an "Ed Lee" style of writing, and at least for this reader, it didn't feel like 3 different visions, but a single one. If you're a fan of stuff like "The Bighead", "The Minotauress", "The Haunter of the Threshold", or "The House" - this will be an easy recommendation.

Caveat Emptor applies to all others, though. If the title makes you chuckle and smile, then go for it. If it offends you on a personal level that anyone would consider such vulgarity to be a means of making a living, by all means keep moving as your opinion is unlikely to be changed.
Profile Image for Daniel Cork.
Author 1 book
April 9, 2024
Now I'll admit I was quite surprised when I found out about this little novella. Edward Lee is an author whom I admire a great deal his works are very grotesque, violent, and horrible but also very intelligent and unique. Judith Sonnet and R.J Benetti however are new to me, I've not read any of their works before but thought reading this novella would be a good way to give their writing style ago, despite it being a collaborative effort between three 3 different authors. The Amityville Bukkake is a novella I had a feeling would either be really fun or just really gross and unappealing to me. So which category does it fall down into, is it gross or is it a masterpiece? Let's find out!

It's been decades since the murders of the Defeo Family and the night that the Lutzs ran away after escaping a supposed haunting. But with Ronald Defeo Jr. now recently passed away, interest has returned to the house and now an eager rich pervert has hired a pornographer to shoot a bukkake in the old house. But when Joey and his crew arrive to start shooting the film on the night before the bukkake, they start to notice some very strange and disturbing occurrences and soon enough they come to realize they've woken up an ancient evil that should have stayed asleep...

I am flabbergasted by this novella, collaborations can be very hit-and-miss for me, especially when the stories sound silly and absolutely insane, but somehow this trio of writers has managed to write a compelling and disturbing haunted house story that has a wicked sense of humor and plenty of horrifying imagery. It's a very demented and grotesque story with lots of gore, violence, sex, and of course semen. This is a harrowing tale with a cast of very unlikable characters and a pornstar whose life you feel sorry for and really hope she somehow manages to escape the house alive.

The atmosphere in this is undeniably creepy, the violence is shocking and the scenes of bodily fluids don't come across as silly and instead suitably terrifying. This is a story I can't imagine will be for everyone but honestly, I loved it. A very shocking and grotesque horror story with a terrific ending.

Overall: It's one of the best collaborations I have ever read and honestly despite its somewhat silly premise, it makes for a disturbing haunted house story. 10/10
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63 reviews
September 25, 2025
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'The Amityville Bukkake' Review: 3 star read

----- In English -----

_> Holy, not holy at all, water (or I shall say substances)... This was definitely a packed, crazy, disgusting film we had here! I mean, we all saw it 'cuming'! Shooter sent me through the roof with his actions, words that left me dumbfounded; poor Shauna, drowning in this disastrous of a mess; Lois was kinda annoying with her accent, but she was fierce, also indecisive; and Joey was definitely b(i)zzzz(are).

I laughed, I was in shock (specifically with 2 descriptions, and I had to close my eyes and pretend I didn't read them so that I wouldn't feel sick)... but give me more!

----- Em Português -----

_> Água benta, ou nada benta (ou melhor, substâncias)... Este foi definitivamente um filme cheio, louco e repugnante! Quer dizer, todos nós viamos isto a acontecer! O Shooter deixou-me louco com as suas ações, palavras que me deixaram perplexo; a pobre Shauna, afogando-se nesta confusão desastrosa; Lois era um pouco irritante com o seu sotaque, mas era feroz, também indecisa; e Joey era definitivamente b(i)zzzz(arro).

Eu ri, fiquei em choque (especificamente com duas descrições, e tive que fechar os olhos e fingir que não as tinha lido para não me sentir mal)... mas dêem-me mais!

...Estavam todos feitos ao 'Biff'
Profile Image for Terra Epsilon.
252 reviews3 followers
December 1, 2025
Czy istnieje coś, o czym będę bała się przyznać, że przeczytałam?
Na ten moment niekoniecznie, bo mimo tytułu, tematyki i oczekiwań…
…to było nudne. Tak po prostu. Bo wątpię, abym znieczuliła się aż tak bardzo, by nic mnie już nie ruszało…

Jedyny plus tego taki, że to było krótkie i pod koniec faktycznie poczułam rękę Lee, aczkolwiek potrafi lepiej – moim zdaniem (i wiem też, że nie jest jedynym autorem, ale tylko jego z tego kompletu znam).
Czy było obrzydliwe? Tak. A czy bardzo obrzydliwe? Meh, parę scen było okey, ale tak czuję trochę niewykorzystany potencjał. Erotyka i s3x zostały tu wypaczone w sposób odrażający, ale nadal mam wrażenie, że dość ,,bezpieczny” (nie wiem czy nawet Bighead nie jechał mocniej po bandzie). Do tego przez długość sama historia i bohaterowie też nieszczególnie mnie interesowali, bo nie było tu miejsca na ciekawsze zarysowanie.
Może faktycznie miałam za duże oczekiwania, biorąc pod uwagę tematykę i reakcję innych, i nawet jeśli momentami faktycznie to było durne tak, jak można było oczekiwać… to jednak trochę się rozczarowałam. Nie trafia już do mnie samo szokowanie przez szokowanie i można wepchnąć byle co. Poza paroma scenami nie mam za wiele do pochwalenia. Może jakby to był dopiero teaser do czegoś większego to lepiej by to wypadło?
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351 reviews8 followers
December 20, 2025
The Amityville Bukkake

I have eyed this one up for so long, featuring the legends Edward Lee, Judith Sonnet & R.J Benetti all in one place it makes for a must read!! I was lucky enough to receive a code from Benetti & made sure it got bumped up the listening list!!

What do you think happens when you put a bunch of porn stars in a haunted mansion filled with horny ghosts? Well a massive creepy orgy obvs 🤣

Everyone is horny, everyone thinks this is going to be the biggest movie made! With the past massacres of the mansion the customers will go crazy over a bukkake masterpiece…what can go wrong right? 😂

Turns out the ghosts are after more than a little fun, they love a little chaos too 👀🤭🤣

This was so much fun and so so naughty 🤭 I have learnt that Benetti really does channel his humour into his writing & has so much fun with it, he loves to make you gasp alongside doing the naughty laugh with every read!! It brings me a lot of joy 😌

You just know all 3 of these authors giggled whilst writing this, deciding what else they can add to make you 😱🤢😂

I listened to this in one day, the narration was perfection & I had so many laugh out loud moments whilst the occasional blush & gag 🫣😅

Thank you so much for sending me this RJ! I am absolutely loving everything I’ve read by you so far! Available on all the platforms, but do check the triggers! 🤎

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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100 reviews5 followers
December 29, 2025
I went into this not knowing exactly what kind of chaos I was signing up for, and honestly? It delivered. This book is wild, ridiculous, and completely unapologetic, which is exactly why it works. It’s not trying to be subtle, classy, or deep. It’s here to entertain, shock, and make you laugh in disbelief, and I was on board the whole time.

The book drops you straight into a very cursed Amityville situation where a group ends up staying in the infamous house because an old, extremely rich man is bankrolling a porn shoot for his private collection. Naturally, the house is absolutely involved from the jump and immediately not chill about any of it.

Things escalate fast and then just keep escalating like it’s a competition. There’s gross-out horror, absurd moments, and characters reacting pretty much how you’d expect when money, ego, and a murder house collide, which honestly makes it more unhinged. Every time I thought it had hit its peak, it somehow found another gear.

I spent most of the book thinking, “There’s no way they’re actually doing this,” and then immediately turning the page because… yeah, they absolutely are. The over-the-top scenes feel intentional, not accidental, and the energy never drops. It also sent me down a mini true-crime side quest, I ended up learning more about the real murders tied to the DeFeo House, which I somehow knew of but had never actually looked into before.

And let’s be real: Judith Sonnet and Edward Lee are amazing for a reason, they know their audience, they commit fully, and they don’t pull punches. R.J. Benetti fits right in with this level of chaotic confidence.

Is this for everyone? Definitely not.
Is it exactly what fans of extreme, absurd, no-shame horror want? Absolutely.

I stared at the page more than once, and I finished it entertained, which is really all I wanted.
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