He flees the orphanage with his followers and, ultimately, emerges in Kuwait.
After Mary Kate kills her husband, the boy is sent to an orphanage, where he matures with uncommon rapidity, develops unpleasant powers, and prefers to be called Baal. She gives birth to a child, Jeffrey Harper, which destroys the lives of the Raines.
I wanted a global scale and a story that would take the reader to the very edge of Armageddon.”īaal begins in New York City, when Mary Kate Raines is raped by a being that leaves burns where it touched her. In the afterword to the 1988 edition of Baal, McCammon stated that “ Baal is about power, written at a time when I had none,” adding that “you always hear this said to young writers, ‘write about what you know.’ I wanted to write about things I didn’t know, so I consciously set Baal in locations as far from the South as possible: Boston, the Middle East, and Greenland. Failing to get his short stories into print, he wrote Baal (1978), an ambitious effort having as its basis the biblical Book of Revelations and the ultimate conflict between limited Good and limitless Evil. The vampire leader Count Vulkan of They Thirst (1981), for example, was named for the cast iron statue of Vulcan set on the Red Mountains on the Birmingham/Homewood border.įollowing graduation, McCammon wrote advertising copy for Birmingham businesses and newspapers. Furthermore, McCammon’s works often contain references and asides that cannot be fully appreciated unless one is familiar with Birmingham. Nevertheless, paralleling his development as a writer has been an apparent acceptance of his southern heritage, and the last two novels he produced before his self-imposed hiatus- Boy’s Life and Gone South-are both set in the Deep South and make use of its heritage and traditions. Despite this strong association with the South, its history and traditions played little substantial role in his early work. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974, and currently resides in Birmingham. The marriage failed, and McCammon was raised by his grandparents in Birmingham. Robert Rick McCammon was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on 17 July 1952, the son of Jack (a musician) and Barbara Bundy McCammon. This self-imposed retreat concluded in 2002, when a small press announced that it would be publishing Speaks the Nightbird, a historical novel written in the early 1990s, but it remains uncertain whether McCammon will ever resume writing. In 1993, at what would appear to be the peak of his skills, he retired from writing, citing variously depression, exhaustion from overwork, a desire to spend more time with his family, and frustration with publishers, who insisted he limit himself to writing genre horror fiction when he wanted to explore other literary forms. Nevertheless, because McCammon’s technique improved with each book, his later works-in particular Boy’s Life (1991) and Gone South (1993)-are essentially unclassifiable, blending elements from forms and genres as disparate as the bildungsroman, magical realism, southern gothic, historical novel, and social commentary. This number is small indeed when compared to the output of such contemporaries as Charles Grant, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz, but it nonetheless distinguished McCammon as a consistently gifted and able writer, albeit one whose early works showed an occasional inability to create strong characters and who tended occasionally to sentimentality. McCammon By Richard Bleiler andīetween 19 Robert McCammon published an even dozen novels and one collection of short stories, almost all of which contained overtly fantastic and horrific elements. More Time, Birthday, and Date CalculatorsĮnjoy the years calculator? That's just one of many.Published in Supernatural Fiction Writers Set them in either order you'd like, or even set them to the same date – the tool will figure it out.
Does the first date have to come before the second? If you see a day difference that looks "off by one", it's actually correct and you're seeing the extra leap year day counted. Years are abstractions though, so unless you try to deliberately bracket February 29 in a leap year you might not even know a leap year is in the calculation. Does the year calculator include leap years? Try it: enter the day and the next date and you'll get '1', not '2' or '0' days in between. The year calculator starts by counting the entire first day, but doesn't count the ending date. Lets you answer how many years are there between these two dates.
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