Michael McDowell

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born

June 01, 1950 in Enterprise, AL, The United States

died

December 27, 1999

gender

male

genre

Horror, Mystery & Thrillers

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Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.

His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural bracelet in a small town.

In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.

Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's abilit...more

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Books by Michael McDowell

Average rating: 3.86 · 1,539 ratings · 155 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Michael McDowell's Blackwater I: The Flood 4.14 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Michael McDowell's Blackwater II: The Levee 4.15 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Michael McDowell's Blackwater III: The House 4.26 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Michael McDowell's Blackwater VI: The Rain 4.29 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Michael McDowell's Blackwater IV: The War 4.20 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Michael McDowell's Blackwater V: The Fortune 4.22 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	Elementals 3.91 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cold Moon Over Babylon 3.92 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Amulet 3.68 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Gilded Needles 3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1980	My rating:

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Series by Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell's Blackwater (6 books)
by Michael McDowell

4.21 avg rating — 692 ratings

Jack & Susan (3 books)
by Michael McDowell

4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings

Quotes by Michael McDowell

“In the hour before a thunderstorm, the color of the forest deepens: the pine needles take on a dense vibrant greenness they possess at no other time, the slender trunks go black, and the leaden sky above sinks lower by the minute.”
― Michael McDowell, Cold Moon Over Babylon

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“I sort of wish that was what happened though, Ginny, because that would mean the girl is all right. Fourteen-year-old girls have run off before."

Ginny eyed the sheriff severely. "Not fourteen-year-old girls who had grandmas like Evelyn Larkin.”
― Michael McDowell, Cold Moon Over Babylon

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