5/20/2023 0 Comments Gilded needles by michael mcdowell![]() ![]() The Amulet (1979), Cold Moon Over Babylon (1980) and The Elementals (1981) are also set in Alabama and contain similar supernatural themes of revenge and redemption. The twist in the story is that the matriarch is something other than human something that crawled from the red mud of the Perdido riverbank and set her ambitious sights on a man and a town. Blackwater (1983) is a serial of six books that tells the story of the Caskey family’s rise to power in the small mill town of Perdido, Alabama. Browsing the horror section I came across a series set in Alabama. My first introduction to McDowell happened 25 years ago in my favorite used bookstore on Rocky Ridge Road. In between he left his mark on different fiction genres and even rubbed elbows with Hollywood’s Tim Burton through their collaborations on Beetlejuice (1987) and Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). He died in 1999 of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts. ![]() McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama. Unfortunately, he died too soon and too underrated. Well, to be honest, most of our great writers don’t. Never heard of him? It could be the fact that not every great writer makes the New York Times bestseller’s list. The recent 9th annual Alabama Bound at the Central library brought to mind my all-time favorite Alabama author, Michael McDowell. ![]()
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