The novel is set in the decidedly blue collar town of Pine Cone Alabama whose main source of employment is a munitions factory that makes rifles for the war in Vietnam. It’s these books that I’m going to focus on in this month’s column.Īs I mentioned last month, The Amulet began life as a screenplay and, as a simple exercise, McDowell decided to do the novelisation himself. His crowning achievements as a writer, however, are the twelve and a half horror books he wrote mainly between 1979 to 1985. The Jack and Susan books all take place 20 years apart (1953, 19 respectively) but the couple are always strangers when they meet at the beginning and are always 27 years old. He also wrote three romantic murder mysteries about a couple called Jack and Susan. Between 19 he wrote 19 novels, mainly crime and thrillers, in conjunction with Dennis Schuetz and John Preston under the pseudonyms: Axel Young, Nathan Aldyne, Mike McCray and Preston MacAdam. Before the sale of his first published novel The Amulet, he wrote five unpublished novels. McDowell was a very fast and a very prolific writer. In this column, the second of a three part feature on McDowell, I’m going to write about his novels. In my last column I wrote about Michael McDowell’s career as a horror novelist and screenplay writer.
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