The third has been abandoned for decades and is slowly being buried beneath an ever-encroaching dune of fine white sand. One house belongs to the Savages, the second to the McCrays. Following the death of matriarch Marian Savage, the families retreat to their summer getaway, Beldame, a remote almost-island on the Alabama panhandle where three Victorian houses rise along the beach. The Elementals concerns two Alabama families bound by marriage, the Savages and the McCrays. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages.” “I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. “I am a commercial writer and I’m proud of that,” McDowell noted in the 1985 interview book Faces of Fear. These days, McDowell is mostly remembered for his contributions to the Tim Burton films Beetlejuice (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), but he was also, to quote Peter Straub, “one of the best writers of horror in this or any other country.” He was extremely prolific, writing more than a dozen novels and numerous screenplays in the 1980s alone.
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