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SOLVED: Adult Fiction > SOLVED. Horror book from 70's or 80's [s]

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message 1: by Kassandra (new)

Kassandra | 2 comments When I was younger my mother had 4 books and each book had a different colored jacket. I can only vaguely remember the books but I have wanted to read them again for some time as I remember liking them. To the best of my memory it's about a woman who moves to a town and I believe she becomes a school teacher. Marries the town doctor/lawyer? She is actually some kind of creature who changes form in water. She kills people in the town and the one I remember most is a little boy whom she takes into the river and rips his limbs off. Someone in the town becomes suspicious of her, I believe it's a child and a woman (possibly the husbands sister). Don't remember if they kill her. It's killing me I can't remember the names and neither does my mother. I was born in 1983 and read these for the first time when I was around 10 so I think they would be early 80's or late 70's.


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David Rose | 46 comments Is it possibly the first four books of the Blackwater series by Michael McDowell? Link to the first book: The Flood. I've not read them myself, though they look interesting, and each volume has a different key colour.


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Kassandra | 2 comments Yes!!!!! That is them! Thanks so much!


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