Those Across the River
Oct 21, 2011
Those Across the River
Author: Christopher Buehlman
Publisher: Ace hardcover/ Penguin
Publication Date: August 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0441020676
So your aunt sends you a letter, written while in a morphine addled state, telling you not to move into the house she’s leaving you in her will because bad things will happen. At the same time, you’re living on your brother’s couch with a divorcee, during the depression, and neither of you have a job or even a prospect of one. What do you do?
Of course you ignore your aunt’s warning and move to a small Southern town in Georgia to live in the free house while you get your writing career off the ground.
You’re confident that your aunt was just crazy from the pain and the drugs – this small town seems delightful. Full of charm and hope and happiness, even with the depression in full swing and people barely getting by.
They seem to have an odd habit of sending sacrificial pigs into the woods every full moon. That doesn’t make much sense, what with people starving and all.
But then they DO stop sending the pigs………………and very bad things begin to happen.
Christopher writes in a very catchy style – the words flow and wrap around your brain from the first paragraph. A great spooky book that has been compared to Salems’ Lot and I tend to agree with that notion. You’re invested in the characters and it runs along at a nice pace with just enough spook before the big build up to grab and hook you immediately.
