Those Across the River
Books | Fiction / Horror
3.6
(144)
Christopher Buehlman
A man must confront a terrifying evil in this captivating horror novel that’s “as much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz.”*Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family’s old estate—the Savoyard Plantation—and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm, there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of the Savoyard Plantation still stand. Where a long-smoldering debt of blood has never been forgotten. Where it has been waiting for Frank Nichols....
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Author
Christopher Buehlman
Pages
384
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2011-09-06
ISBN
1101543868 9781101543863
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Absolutely! This story was a pleasant surprise. I should have never assumed the plot..OR judged this book by its cover. Truly original and beautiful story."
Martin Vadas
"Wow! "
Lance Welch
"Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of Savoyard still stand. Where a longstanding debt of blood has never been forgotten. A debt that has been waiting patiently for Frank Nichols's homecoming… <br/><br/><img src="http://media3.giphy.com/media/BdzRxLwEyioU0/giphy.gif"><br/><br/>I listened to this on audiobook, and man, this narrator is awesome. Brought a lot of flavor to the book, and I was absolutely enraptured by it until it was over. I was also getting a kick out of the fact that they had fled from what is sort-of my home city, Ann Arbor, and that our protagonist had been a history professor at University of Michigan, where my husband is an alumni. Loved it.<br/><br/><img src="http://media.giphy.com/media/XNLmDIKkhCG64/giphy.gif">"
Amanda Ebbutt