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Those across the river6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() So far only Stephen King and Christopher Buehlman have managed. Vampires annoy me with their evil glamor but I can tolerate them if the author is good enough. They’re poignant and dangerous in large numbers and goofy in the right hands. ![]() His beloved wife Dora moves with him from Chicago to a sleepy village (think Fried Green Tomatoes) and into his inheritance, his aunt’s house in the town his evil great grandfather reigned over during the States War.Īs you may recall me mentioning before, zombies are my favorite monster. Frank is a veteran of the Great War over in France and bears the scars outside and in, awake or dreaming. In Those Across the River it’s summer in the Great Depression, in a sleepy place that seems outside normal time and place for the modern reader. ![]() I don’t recommend reading these back to back unless you like your head to go all Linda Blair on you. The two are vastly different, and both of them nothing like The Necromancer’s House, his third book. Those Across the River was his debut but of course I started in the middle with his next book The Lesser Dead. Enjoy this Monday with Mildred! Those Across the Riverįrom glitzy New York City’s disco era to very rural Georgia in 1935, author Christopher Buehlman is unafraid to go there, wherever “there” is in his latest novel. ![]()
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