Books by Michael McDowell and Complete Book Reviews
Tabitha King, Author, Michael McDowell, Author . Berkley $24.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-425-21028-4
A mix of magic realism and Southern gothic, this stunning collaboration between King (Survivor
) and McDowell (The Elementals
), who died in 1999, moves at a hypnotic pace, like an Alabama water moccasin slipping through black water. Set in the late
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Tabitha King, Author, Michael McDowell, Author, Carrington MacDuffie, Read by Blackstone Audiobooks $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-6543-8
MacDuffie reads this Southern gothic tale, which King completed upon her friend McDowell's death, with a honeyed Alabama drawl that rapidly grows tiresome. She puts so much effort into each word that the audiobook becomes more a personal performance
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Michael McDowell, Author Ballantine Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-32810-6
It is 1913, and the nation's leading movie companies are headquartered in New York brownstones and the shooting lots are in nearby Fort Lee, N.J. Susan Bright begins writing in this disreputable new business after a broken leg ends her fledgling...
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Michael McDowell, Author, Nathan Aldyne, Author, Harry O. Morris, Illustrator Scream Press $22.5 (186p) ISBN 978-0-910489-11-9
McDowell is a well known author of occult tales (The Amulet, The Elementals) who now offers an ambitious novel of psychological horror. The unnamed narrator relates his twisted view of life so transparently that we can see through his demented...
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