The Deadly Spring by J.C. Conaway

[seizure]

The Deadly Spring by J.C. Conaway

Leisure (1976)



blurb...
THE WATER OF DEATH

Cheat Holler, West Virginia was located near a military bas conducting secret experiments in chemical warfare. Through a bizarre accident, a deadly drug was released into the town town's water supply. It affected the minds of everyone who drank the water – releasing the savage and sadistic urges normally kept hidden under the veneer of society.

Contaminated water causes the locals to go gaga and start killing each other and shagging each other more than usual. There's loads of sex in this book, if they're not having sex they're thinking about sex, if they're not thinking about sex they're writing about sex. This is BEFORE they even taste the contaminated water.
There's a couple of quite nice death scenes in this, one involving a wig adorned teacher and her pupils, and another featuring an old lady and her chickens (yep, it's got killer chickens!)

[dem bones]

Here's another Of J.C.'s ......

J. C. Conaway - Quarrel With The Moon (TOR, Apr. 1982)

Blurb
WORSE THAN ANY NIGHTMARE
It began with the bones. Strange remains of a creature almost human....

Josh Holman at the New York Institute of Anthropology could not believe his eyes. He seemed to be staring at a new kind of missing link!

The remains had come from the mountains of West Virginia. Josh would investigate. And with him would go his lady, beautiful Cresta Farraday, taking a vacation from her career as a top fashion model, hoping to revitalize her relationship with Josh.

But the strange bones were the least of it. Before Josh and Cresta arrived in West Virginia, three people would die. Horribly....

And they were only the first.
Something in the mountains was hungry.
Something that craved human flesh.
Something that had a QUARREL WITH THE MOON

..... it stalled on the to-read pile as TOR novels tend to be quite sensible and the blurb suggests a run-of-the-mill werewolf yarn. Having read your comments on The Deadly Spring, Quarrel ... has now shot back up the list. Any man who can introduce chickens on the rampage into the mix ....

[andydecker]

They did nice covers, did they? I am not so convinced on the content, but a lot of covers of this era was very good.