Books like Blackwater
At Easter 1919 floodwaters cover Perdido, Alabama, and Oscar Caskey, son of the town's richest family, rows out to the drowned hotel and finds a young woman named Elinor Dammert waiting calmly in a room upstairs.
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The Elementals
After a funeral in Mobile, the Savage and McCray families go to Beldame, three Victorian houses on a lonely spit of the Alabama coast, though the third has been empty for decades and is slowly filling with sand.
The Witching Hour
A neurosurgeon is drawn into the baroque history of a New Orleans family of witches stretching back to 17th-century Scotland.
Boy's Life
In the spring of 1964 in Zephyr, Alabama, young Cory Mackenson is out on the milk round with his father when a car plunges into Saxon's Lake, and his father dives in after it to find a dead man handcuffed to the wheel.
Absalom, Absalom!
Thomas Sutpen arrives in Mississippi in 1833 with a band of enslaved men to build a plantation and a dynasty, and the story of its destruction, told and retold by several narrators, becomes a reckoning with slavery and time.
The Covenant of Water
In Kerala from 1900 to the 1970s, a twelve-year-old girl married to a widower she has never met founds a family that loses someone to drowning in every generation, and her granddaughter grows up to become a doctor determined to find out why.
The Little Friend
Twelve years after her brother was found hanged in the family yard, a fierce twelve-year-old in 1970s Mississippi decides she knows who killed him and sets out for revenge.
As I Lay Dying
A poor Mississippi family transports their dead mother's body across the county for burial, and the journey becomes a darkly comic, hallucinatory odyssey.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
NOS4A2
Vic McQueen can find lost things by riding her bicycle across a covered bridge that should not exist, and as a teenager it leads her to Charlie Manx, who takes children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce to a place called Christmasland.
The Bog Wife
For generations the Haddesleys of West Virginia have buried their patriarch in the bog in exchange for a wife to carry on the line. When their father dies and no bride rises for the eldest son, his siblings start to come apart.
The Good House
Two years after her teenage son died at her late grandmother's house in Sacajawea, Washington, Angela Toussaint goes back to it, and learns why the women in her family were once feared there.
Buckeye
In the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, on the day Germany surrenders in 1945, Margaret Salt, whose husband is away in the Navy, impulsively kisses Cal Jenkins in the hardware store, and that kiss shapes two families for decades.