![]() ![]() ![]() in English and American Literature from Brandeis. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in English from Harvard, and in 1978 he was awarded his Ph.D. Michael McDowell was born Jin Enterprise, Alabama and attended public schools in southern Alabama until 1968. This first-ever reprint features deliciously creepy new cover art by Mike Mignola. Ĭold Moon Over Babylon (1980), the second novel by Michael McDowell (1950-1999), author of Blackwater and The Elementals and screenwriter of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a chilling Southern Gothic tale of revenge from beyond the grave that ranks among his most terrifying books. And when the full moon rises over Babylon, it will seek a terrible vengeance. Night after night it will pursue the murderer. And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form. ![]() Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law.īut something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy southern town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. ![]()
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