Cold Moon Over Babylon (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) (Paperback)

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Babylon, a small community in the Florida panhandle near the Styx River, is the setting of this superb example of Gothic horror. Evelyn Larkin lost her son and daughter-in-law several years ago to the Styx when the two ran their fishing boat into a nest of poisonous snakes leaving her alone to ra...

from runner56

This is an excellent crime story combined with colourful horror overtones! The setting is in the deep south of the US in the small neighbourhood of Babylon. From the beginning I could feel the heat and the tension and the fear that was about to stalk this rural community. The characters came aliv...

from Unkletom

When I read The Elementals last year I thought that it was my first experience with Michael McDowell's work. It wasn't until recently that his was the pen behind such classic movies as Beetlejuice and Nightmare Before Christmas. He also wrote episodes for many anthology series such as Tales from ...

from Crewman_Number_6

This book was chilling in the right places, but I was severely disappointed with the ending.

from readingover50

I absolutely hated the character of Belinda, the sheriff's teenage daughter. The way she talked, all her cutesy sayings, made me want to vomit. Seriously, I almost quit reading because of her. This is a classic ghost story. Well written it starts a little slow, then builds to an exciting second h...