Blackwater II: The Levee by Michael McDowell [FIRST PRINTING / 1983]

Blackwater II: The Levee by Michael McDowell 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1983] AVON BOOKS

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

Books is like new and unread.  minor 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 abandoned her first-born child in a bargain with Mary-Love Caskey of Perdido, Alabama, and set in motion a series of strange familial entanglements. Her goals: power, money, her way.

In her way, she would begin to suck power from the weaknesses of the family she had entered through marriage. Her power would be felt again and again even if it meant murder - or a horifying ancient ritual death. Elinor Dammert must win.