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Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror w. Jamie Loftus (Part 2)

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Sarah continues telling guest host Jamie Loftus about the Amityville Horror, and the two touch on ghosts, fallen angels, poltergeists, the space race and intimidating pictures of Mandy Moore.

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0:00.0

And if I were a fallen angel, like, would I appear as a giant pig?

0:05.5

I don't know.

0:06.5

If I've been around for millennia, sure.

0:07.8

Welcome to your wrong about the podcast where we tell you about best sellers that you

0:24.6

read the first 13 pages of and then got bored.

0:27.6

I feel like the Amityville Horror specifically is a book you would see underneath the leg of

0:34.2

a table.

0:35.2

Yes.

0:36.2

It serves multiple functions.

0:37.2

I think that that's an honor.

0:38.4

If you can write a book that can hold up someone's aunties table, you're doing something

0:42.8

right.

0:43.8

I mean, if you find an early paperback copy of the Amityville Horror, the copyright page

0:49.4

is often really funny in those because it's like first printing September 1977, second

0:56.0

printing.

0:57.0

November 1977, third printing January 1978, like I'm making this up because I don't have

1:02.3

one of these in front of me.

1:03.6

But I've seen copies where it goes through eight or 10 printings in about a year because

1:09.4

the way the public gobbled this book up just means that there's like so many copies of

1:14.4

it floating around in the world with us all the time.

1:17.8

When there's a huge cultural mother load like that, I think it's going to be so easy to

1:21.7

get an early edition of something.

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