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Post by andydecker on Sept 3, 2024 16:01:23 GMT
Michael McDowell – Cold Moon over Babylon (Avon, 1980, 292 pages)  This is McDowell’s second published novel. The plot is fairly typical for the writer. Babylon, a little town in the Deep South, at the river Styx, has your typical people right out of Stephen King Country. Some rich guy kills innocent Margaret Larkin and throws her corpse into the river. But Margaret comes back to get her revenge. A staple of EC comics, the plot lives through the characterisation of the protagonists, the country and the creepy atmosphere. Like most of McDowell’s novels there is no real gore or sex at play, there is no Black Magic or Voodoo, only the vengeful corpses/ghosts. It is a solid novel with a nice finish. There is a movie, filmed in 2016, called just Cold Moon. Long OOP Valancourt did a new edition in 2015 with a nice Mignola cover. |
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