Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga [6 pts.] - Michael McDowell Audiobook

Written by Michael McDowell
Read by Matt Godfrey
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A 30hr. mp3 would have been rediculous so I broke it down into their respective books.

Originally published as a series of six volumes.

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919.

On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido’s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret.

Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations.

Some of those who observe her rituals in the river will never be seen again…

—1 The Flood 1-12: 4:56:21

Elinor Dammert was rescued from her room in the flood isolated hotel. What strange mission brought her there? How did she survive her isolation? Why was she in the Alabama town of Perdido that Easter morning in 1919?

These questions would never be answered because larger and even more terrifying ones would be asked. She soon would become a strange presence in the wealthy Caskey family and their town. Horrors, virtually unspeakable and nearly indescribable, follow.

—2 The Levee 13-27: 4:56:19

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 28-42: 4:44:19

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 43-57: 4:58:25

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 58-71 : 4:49:12

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 72-85: 5:45:40

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.

Narrated By: Matt Godfrey
Duration: 30:06:05

Bitrate: 64kbps