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Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga
by Michael McDowell
I've wanted to check out Blackwater since reading Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix, and finally got around to it. How to describe this collection? It's like John Jakes meets Swamp Thing. Is that right? Does that work? I don't know, but it wasn't at all what I was expecting, and I loved every minute of it. Thought it was featured in a book about horror novels, I wouldn't put this in that genre; there were brief instances of creepiness and gore, but not enough to justify a horror label. The characters, for the most part, were complex and multi-dimensional. The author's writing caused the different settings (the river, the swamp, the town, the different characters' houses, etc.) to seem like characters in and of themselves. I mourn the fact that the author didn't create a larger body of work prior to passing in 1999, but I intend to give the rest of his works a look as soon as possible.