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Blackwater #3-4
Blackwater, Band 2
Contains Blackwater 3 (The House) und Blackwater 4 (The War).
Blackwater ist anders als alles, was du je gelesen hast. Eine Familiensaga mit einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre schleichenden Grauens.
Blackwater erzählt von dem verschlafenen Perdido in Alabama und den Schrecken, die Elinor Dammert über die Familie Caskey und die Stadt bringt.
Die mysteriöse Fremde, die bei einem Hochwasser am Ostersonntag 1919 in Perdido erscheint, wirkt liebenswürdig und charmant. Aber Elinors schönes Äußeres verbirgt ein schockierendes Geheimnis. Im Wasser des Perdido-Flusses verwandelt sie sich in etwas, über das die Einwohner schon seit Generationen Geschichten erzählen …
Ursprünglich in sechs Teilen erschienen, gilt die Blackwater-Saga als eine der besten Horrorerzählungen aller Zeiten. Michael McDowells wichtigstes Werk, ein über mehrere Generationen verteiltes Familienfresko.
Die Publikation war ein solcher Erfolg, dass sie Stephen King (ein Bewunderer der Werke von McDowell) zehn Jahre später dazu inspirierte The Green Mile ebenfalls in sechs Bänden zu veröffentlichen.
Festa veröffentlicht dieses epische Meisterwerk erstmals auf Deutsch in drei Bänden mit circa 1400 Seiten.
Blackwater ist anders als alles, was du je gelesen hast. Eine Familiensaga mit einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre schleichenden Grauens.
Blackwater erzählt von dem verschlafenen Perdido in Alabama und den Schrecken, die Elinor Dammert über die Familie Caskey und die Stadt bringt.
Die mysteriöse Fremde, die bei einem Hochwasser am Ostersonntag 1919 in Perdido erscheint, wirkt liebenswürdig und charmant. Aber Elinors schönes Äußeres verbirgt ein schockierendes Geheimnis. Im Wasser des Perdido-Flusses verwandelt sie sich in etwas, über das die Einwohner schon seit Generationen Geschichten erzählen …
Ursprünglich in sechs Teilen erschienen, gilt die Blackwater-Saga als eine der besten Horrorerzählungen aller Zeiten. Michael McDowells wichtigstes Werk, ein über mehrere Generationen verteiltes Familienfresko.
Die Publikation war ein solcher Erfolg, dass sie Stephen King (ein Bewunderer der Werke von McDowell) zehn Jahre später dazu inspirierte The Green Mile ebenfalls in sechs Bänden zu veröffentlichen.
Festa veröffentlicht dieses epische Meisterwerk erstmals auf Deutsch in drei Bänden mit circa 1400 Seiten.
- GenresHorrorSouthern Gothic
464 pages, Hardcover
Published May 22, 2023
About the author
Michael McDowell
73 books2,205 followersMichael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to maintain a sense of mundane normalcy against supernatural activity provides the novel with "a fine balance between reality and unreality," and he called Cold Moon Over Babylon "one of the best ghost stories ever written at novel length."
A similarly disturbing tension between dull reality and the supernatural is produced in The Elementals, wherein a host of visitors come to stay at a secluded house occupied by embodiments of elemental forces.
McDowell's Katie, meanwhile, concerns a clairvoyant serial killer whose powers of perception enable her to evade her trackers. The attractive but deranged heroine of this novel manages to conduct her murderous activities despite the awareness of her parents, who are content to derive financial gain from their daughter's crimes.
Madness is central to McDowell's Toplin, which details the vile imaginings of a man who suffers from mental illness but nonetheless determines to conduct himself within society. D'Ammassa praised Toplin as "perhaps the best novel ever written from the point of view of a schizophrenic."
Among McDowell's other writings is the six-part serial novel Blackwater, a chronicle of a southern family drawn to the supernatural. In addition, McDowell has also supplied the screenplays for various films, including director Tim Burton's horror comedy Beetlejuice and his animated production The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Stephen King called McDowell one of the "finest writers of paperback originals in America today." Tabitha King was asked to complete McDowell's unfinished novel Candles Burning, which was published in 2006 to good reviews. Concerning his career, McDowell never tried to be something he wasn't. "I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that", he said in the book Faces of Fear in 1985. "I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages."
His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to maintain a sense of mundane normalcy against supernatural activity provides the novel with "a fine balance between reality and unreality," and he called Cold Moon Over Babylon "one of the best ghost stories ever written at novel length."
A similarly disturbing tension between dull reality and the supernatural is produced in The Elementals, wherein a host of visitors come to stay at a secluded house occupied by embodiments of elemental forces.
McDowell's Katie, meanwhile, concerns a clairvoyant serial killer whose powers of perception enable her to evade her trackers. The attractive but deranged heroine of this novel manages to conduct her murderous activities despite the awareness of her parents, who are content to derive financial gain from their daughter's crimes.
Madness is central to McDowell's Toplin, which details the vile imaginings of a man who suffers from mental illness but nonetheless determines to conduct himself within society. D'Ammassa praised Toplin as "perhaps the best novel ever written from the point of view of a schizophrenic."
Among McDowell's other writings is the six-part serial novel Blackwater, a chronicle of a southern family drawn to the supernatural. In addition, McDowell has also supplied the screenplays for various films, including director Tim Burton's horror comedy Beetlejuice and his animated production The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Stephen King called McDowell one of the "finest writers of paperback originals in America today." Tabitha King was asked to complete McDowell's unfinished novel Candles Burning, which was published in 2006 to good reviews. Concerning his career, McDowell never tried to be something he wasn't. "I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that", he said in the book Faces of Fear in 1985. "I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages."
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June 15, 2024
Leí está saga porque me llamaron muchísimo la atención sus maravillosas portadas y el formato y que decir ... Vaya maravilla de saga. Completamente enamorada y fascinada de esta saga. Sólo tengo buenas palabras para cada uno de los libros que la forman. A la espera que traduzcan más libros del escritor al español.
Si tenéis la oportunidad de leerlos, hacerlo, será un gran acierto.
Si tenéis la oportunidad de leerlos, hacerlo, será un gran acierto.
November 27, 2024
This felt more like horror than books one and two, or I am just getting used to the heavy focus on the family saga in this series. The characters feel real and engaging, especially some of the side characters. And that ending... I did not expect such a sad turn.
March 25, 2024
A topeeeeee necesito más 😍
July 23, 2023
Adoro il modo in cui vengono raccontati i fatti, ci scappa il morto? Ma si, è nell'ordine delle cose, è giusto così!
June 7, 2024
A haunting and immersive story in a masterful blend of horror and family saga.
February 23, 2024
Mehr Horror, neue Twists in der Familiengeschichte, neuer Pageturner. Sehr stark.
Der Abschlussband darf kommen.
Der Abschlussband darf kommen.
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