The Books Oracle
by Michael McDowell · Blackwater series
The first volume of McDowell's epic Southern Gothic saga begins with a devastating flood that brings the mysterious Elinor Dammert to the small Alabama town of Perdido. As she insinuates herself into the powerful Caskey family, dark forces and family secrets rise like the floodwaters themselves. Atmospheric and unsettling, this is Gothic horror at its most operatic and strange.
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