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The Bottoms

ISBN: 0892967048

Title: The Bottoms

Author: Joe R. Lansdale

KDL Description:

When young Harry Collins stumbles upon a mutilated body in the local river bottoms, the region beomes trapped in a nightmare of fear and racial tension, as a vicious serial killer stalks the town, a man is lynched, and local law enforcement races against time to find the murderer, in a suspenseful tale set in Depression-era East Texas.

Amazon Description:

Way back before the bottoms were drained during the Great Depression that transformed deep East Texas, a boy could hear the crickets and the frogs in the river bed. And under the star-studded southern night he could find things darker than the murky waters…

When young Harry Collins discovers a black woman’s body, mutilated and bound to a tree with barbed wire, he unleashes a storm of dread. With his younger sister, they fix their suspicions on the legendary horror called the Goat Man who, the locals say, lurks beneath the swinging bridge that crosses the Sabine River. More real than any child could ever imagine, the creature holds the key to a string of brutal and confounding murders…and a chilling truth scarely glimpsed beyond the thick woods and tornado-ripe skies.

Powerfully evoking William Faulkner and Harper Lee, The Bottoms is pure storytelling brilliance from one of the most acclaimed and supremely inventive American novelists alive today.