Nevertheless, this is lusty, snappy writing, and horror fans will eat it up (or vice versa). It’s so viscerally upsetting that it’s a minor disappointment when supernatural elements are introduced. In its unnerving depiction of small-town creepiness and heathen savagery, this surefooted debut resembles nothing more than Thomas Tryon’s Harvest Home (1973).

You see, those across the river need to eat, and if they can’t eat pigs, they’ll find something else. Book Review for 'Those Across the River' by Christopher Buhelman - YouTube 0:00 / 24:25 Book Review for 'Those Across the River' by Christopher Buhelman 209 views In. When they vote to end this tradition, all hell breaks loose. Impoverished little Whitbrow has a strange tradition of sending pigs, which they never see again, across the river for good luck. The couple has landed in Whitbrow, Georgia, where Frank hopes to write a book about the infamous slave revolt against his plantation-owning great-grandfather. Failed Academic Frank Nichols and his partner, Eudora, have come south to claim an inheritance in the cursed and impoverished. Produced by Mooj Zadie, Luke Vander Ploeg and Clare Toeniskoetter. Fresher still are the professional wounds he’s licking after the two-year affair that chased him and his young wife, Eudora, from the university at which both worked. What a delightfully creepy story Two northerners, Frank and Eudora, come to a small Georgia. Memories of WWI trench warfare, though 17 years old, are still fresh.

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