Blackwater IV: The War by Michael McDowell [FIRST PRINTING / 1983]

Blackwater IV: The War by Michael McDowell 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1983] AVON BOOKS

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

Books is like new and unread.  Some light 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...

Wartime in Perdido jolted the sleepy little Alabama town as new people entered the community. Outsiders would invade the comfort of the wealthy Caskeys and take their daughters.

This, though, was the part of the master plan of Elinor Caskey, who would see the fasmily flourish amidst the deatruction and death she administered in a fashion more awesome than the war itself.