![]() His usual mode is to adopt an omniscent view and gradually reveal all to us as his characters disport themselves. He has a terrific ability to get at the dark side of human nature and to delineate the psychological depths of eccentric and bizarre characters. His prose is rich, allusive, and often intricate, yet so smoothly polished that it never distracts from the table. All were published as paperback originals and all were very successful. McDowell is the author of three horror novels (The Amulet, Cold Moon Over Babylon, and The Elementals) and two very dark novels of 19th-century America (Gilded Needles and Katie). ![]() Yet my local bookseller reports that, in the final week of each of the last four or five months, her customers were stopping by frequently to ask if the latest volume of Michael McDowell's Blackwater had been delivered.īlackwater is a serial novel, published by Avon in six paperback volumes - each more or less complete in itself, but really only part of a larger, richer whole - at the rate of one each month from January to June. It is not easy to imagine such a thing happening today. ![]() ![]() IN THE 19th CENTURY, when the novels of Charles Dickens were appearing in England in serial form, a few chapters at a time, American readers waited eagerly at the docks for the ship bringing over the latest installment. ![]()
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