![]() ![]() I had to track down all of his other books. ![]() You know what it’s like when you find writing that emotionally chimes with your own feelings. Surely, I thought, they must be ripe for republication? The saga played out like a gruesomely overheated Dickensian soap, and was constructed for maximum page-turning efficiency. The Blackwater saga chronicled a tragic fifty-year period in the lives of the Caskey family, whose women bear a strange affinity for running water and whose vengeance knows no bounds. ![]() I’m a notoriously slow reader but managed all three in three days, and behaved like a crack addict searching for the other half of the sextet. My first exposure to Michael McDowell came when I stumbled across the first three volumes of Blackwater in a secondhand bookshop in Brighton. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher. Copyright Act of 1976, the copying, scanning, uploading, and/or electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitutes unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. Published by Valancourt Books, Richmond, VirginiaĪll rights reserved. ![]() Introduction copyright © 2015 by Christopher Fowler First published as a paperback original by Avon Books in 1980 ![]()
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