Name: Blackwater: The Complete Saga
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Author: Michael McDowell
ISBN: 9781943910816

Type

Physical Book

Author

Michael McDowell

Introduction by

Nathan Ballingrud

Publisher

Valancourt Books

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

800

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781943910816

Synopsis "Blackwater: The Complete Saga "

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido’s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations. Some of those who observe her rituals in the river will never be seen again ...Originally published as a series of six volumes in 1983, Blackwater is the crowning achievement of Michael McDowell, author of the Southern Gothic classics Cold Moon Over Babylon and The Elementals and screenwriter of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. This first-ever one-volume edition, with a new introduction by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, marks Blackwater’s first appearance in print in three decades and will allow a new generation of readers to discover this modern horror classic.

Michael McDowell

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Michael McDowell was a true monster of literature. Endowed with boundless creativity, he wrote thousands of pages, with a capacity on the level of a Balzac or a Dumas. Like them, he chose to tell stories that would reach the entire world. And, like them, he chose the most popular medium of dissemination: the serial or serialized novel, in the case of the nineteenth-century masters; the paperback in the case of McDowell. Besides being a novelist, Michael McDowell was an acclaimed screenwriter. His collaboration with Tim Burton produced Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, as well as an episode for the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

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