Blackwater I: The Flood by Michael McDowell [FIRST PRINTING / 1983]

Blackwater I: The Flood by Michael McDowell 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1983] AVON BOOKS

1st / 1st.  Rare mass market horror paperback.

Books is like new and unread.  Trace shelf wear to cover. 

Michael McDowell was proclaimed “the finest writer of paperback originals in America” by Stephen King, and “one of the best writers of horror in this country” by Peter Straub.   Now, McDowell’s masterpiece—the serial novel, Blackwater—has come to thrill and terrify a new generation of readers...

Elinor Dammert was rescued from her room in the flood-isolated hotel. What strange mission brought her there? How did she survive her isolation? Why was she in the Alabama town of Perdido that Easter morning in 1919?

These questions would never be answered because larger and even more terrifying ones would be asked. She soon would become a strange presence in the wealthy Caskey family and their town. Horrors, virtually unspeakable and nearly indescribable, follow.