When a dead relative leaves you property but also leave you
a letter demanding you sell said property and never set foot in town, you
should listen. When a town runs perfectly good pigs across a local river during
the Depression and those animals are never seen again, you should run. Run
fast.
Frank Nichols inherits a house in a small sleepy Georgia
town. He’s down on his luck so he takes
up residence and begins working on a book about an ancestor who used to own a
plantation in the area. That’s when the world starts going wrong. The locals are suspicious at best. The
surrounds woods are deemed unfriendly. The local traditions are odd to say the
least. When those traditions are stopped because of economics bad things start
to happen.
I really liked Those Across the River. It’s a great first novel from Christopher
Buehlman. Actually, it is hard to
believe it is his first novel. It really
is wonderful. It seems like the story
proceeds as such a leisurely pace but that is deceptive. The action is really fast paced and at time
shocking. There is no doubt that this
book belongs firmly in the horror section. Those Across the River is a book you
should read, but not on a dark stormy night.
This one is a four out of five for me.
