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Those Across the River

by Christopher Buehlman

A family history shadowed by a town’s old dread

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    By a New York Times bestselling author

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A family history shadowed by a town’s old dread

Set in a Georgia town after the Great War, the novel links Frank Nichols’s attempt to document his family estate with a danger the community has kept at a distance for generations. Whitbrow’s summer socials and small-town surface sit beside the ruined Savoyard Plantation, across a river and near woods associated with an old demand for sacrifice. The premise brings together wartime memories, inherited history, and supernatural horror, with Frank’s arrival drawing the past into the present. The setting’s contrast between familiar town life and a nearby, ominous landscape gives the book’s central conflict its shape.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult readers seeking horror grounded in a small-town setting.
  • Readers interested in supernatural threats tied to family history and local secrets.
  • Readers who enjoy stories with a postwar backdrop.

Themes

Wartime memoryFamily history and inherited debtsSmall-town secrecySupernatural horror

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Book overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Between Two Fires--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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