Blackwater: The Complete Saga

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His screen credits include Beetlejuice (1987), and collaborations on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Thinner (1996).

Y'all, this is a Southern Gothic to drown all other Southern Gothics in a bathtub full of muddy river water.There is a portion of the book where every member of the family has so much wealth they could never spend it all, and while the town as a whole has prospered to some extent, they just continue to sit there, no idea of what to do with the wealth except get more of it, and that makes me just about lose my damn mind.

The cast is richly developed and I unexpectedly started caring a little too much for this rich Southern family and their lumber business.

Beyond the family dramas and horrific deaths, the slice-of-life scenes that are scattered throughout are bloody amazing. As a character-driven epic spanning multiple generations, it often feels closer to Harper Lee or William Faulkner than Stephen King. Like yeah fine it's nice to leave a sizable bequest to your servants in your will but you could also, I don't know, pay them more while you're alive! Blackwater' was originally published in 1983 as a series of 6 short books which were released once a month. Regardless of all the schemes and machinations, I usually couldn't wait to see new family members and find out how they would get along, what they would end up doing, what was to become of the Caskeys.