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' homecoming.Īs tensions mount, listeners will find themselves on the edge of their seats anticipating the spine-tingling conclusion to this stunning novel.īuehlman is the most original voice in horror since Stephen King. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. The author works with a standard horror convention here, but by cleverly introducing elements of the Southern Gothic and setting his story in the 1930s, when memories of both the American Civil War and the First World War can be drawn on, he has possibly created a masterpiece. But in a letter delivered after her death, his aunt warned Frank not to live in the house-a warning Frank ignores.Īt first the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. Those Across The River just drips with atmosphere. An aunt Frank never knew bequeathed him a modest homestead, so he and Eudora take the opportunity to break ties with the past. 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.
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