In 1935, when WWI veteran Frank Nichols inherits a house in
Whitbrow, Georgia, from his aunt, he gladly leaves Chicago
and his faltering academic career behind. Even though his
aunt expressly wrote in her will that she did not want him
to inhabit the house and to sell it as soon as possible,
Frank and his soon-to-be wife, Eudora, are looking forward
to a new start after the problems they had in Chicago. They
quickly find those troubles are nothing compared to what
they experience in Whitbrow and the eerie woods across the
river.
While Dora works as a schoolteacher in Whitbrow, Frank
plans to research and then write a book about his Civil War
ancestors, who ran the much-maligned Savoyard Plantation,
the ruins of which are just across the river from Whitbrow.
Frank has heard horror stories about how his relative would
not release his slaves after the emancipation, but instead
took delight in torturing them. As he comes to know the
local townsfolk, he realizes things are not as peaceful as
he and Dora first thought. The locals live in constant fear
as a sacrifice is required with each new moon. And now that
a descendant of the evil plantation owner is on the scene,
things become even worse.
THOSE ACROSS THE RIVER is a riveting horror novel that I
could not put down until I'd found out what the menacing
presence was across the river. There are lots of horrific
twists and turns as this story progresses, and it keeps you
on the edge of your seat with each new surprising element,
as well as the outcome. This is quite a debut novel for
Buehlman.
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...
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