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Michael McDowell

Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children’s gratitude, and if she perceived that her children were not sufficiently grateful, she could make something of that, too.

horror, rivermonsters

Michael McDowell

That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl–and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor’s house–was a slap in Mary-Love’s face. She decided, without saying anything more to James, to wreck Grace’s perfection of happiness. Grace would learn that she, Mary-Love, was the source of all felicity within the Caskey family.

horror, mothers-in-law, rivermonsters

Michael McDowell

Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible–but inevitable.

horror, writing

Michael McDowell

Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible–but inevitable.

horror, writing