Blackwater, The Complete Caskey Family Saga [1-6] - Michael McDowell

-1 The Flood:

As a devastating flood brings a strange and beautiful visitor to the small, sleepy lumber town of Perdido, Alabama.



Elinor Dammert's arrival will forever change the town and the wealthy and powerful Caskey family.



James, who dotes on Elinor like a second daughter... Sister, who pines for Elinor’s strength and independence... Oscar, who loves Elinor and determines to build a life with her...



And matriarch Mary Love, perhaps the only person in Perdido with an inkling of Elinor’s true power and purpose. For Elinor is more than she appears, and she brings to Perdido and to the Caskeys a deadly, inexplicable otherness from which no one can ever be safe.



-2 The Levee:

Elinor Dammert abandoned her first-born child in a bargain with Mary-Love Caskey of Perdido, Alabama, and set in motion a series of strange familial entanglements. Her goals: power, money, her way.



In her way, she would begin to suck power from the weaknesses of the family she had entered through marriage. Her power would be felt again and again even if it meant murder - or a horifying ancient ritual death. Elinor Dammert must win.



-3 The House:

The Depression came hard to most people in Perdido, Alabama, but the town's first family weathered the storm under the guidane of the indomitable Mary-Love Caskey and the increasing influence of her daughter in law, Elinor.



Strange and malevolent were the ways of Elinor to those who stood in her way. Those she loved would prosper. Those she disliked would die hideously. No court could call it murder because her manner was not human.



-4 The War:

Wartime in Perdido jolted the sleepy little Alabama town as new people entered the community. Outsiders would invade the comfort of the wealthy Caskeys and take their daughters.



This, though, was the part of the master plan of Elinor Caskey, who would see the fasmily flourish amidst the destruction and death she administered in a fashion more awesome than the war itself.



-5 The Fortune:

Under Elinor's guidance, the Caskey family prospered after the war, not knowing that a dark infernal force was growing in their midst. And Frances, Elinor's favorite daughter, never understood her strange yearning for the Perdido River.... until the day her babies were born.



Elinor presided over the secret birth, the triumph of her life. And the blood red water of the Perdido continued to claim its own, both human and demons, some in grisly death, some in exquisite surrender.



-6 Rain:

As the Caskey family and their town of Perdido rode the crest of prosperty in the 60's, matriarch Elinor had a good reason to be proud of her domain. But slowly, silently, unimaginable horrors were creeping into their midst.



At the height of the revelry, at the peak of chaos, in the fearful silence of blackest night, preternatural horror pounced upon the Caskeys. But still Elinor reigned, until her solemn vow of death came true, in the final horror.



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Narrated By: Matt Godfrey

Duration: 30:06:05

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