![]() ![]() Buehlman brings his poetic background to bear in crafting the rhythm and meter of the story…A well-crafted novel that is a pleasure to read.” Sentences dripped off the page like sweat off the brows of the characters during the hot summer months…It is clear that Mr. “The prose is sublimely crafted and eminently quotable. “Gripping, compelling gothic horror in the most classical sense, an American Dracula that absorbs the reader into its seductive embrace through lush rhythms and a veneer of homespun innocence.” ![]() “A horror story that manages just the right blend between building dread and suspense and building action.” If the people of Whitbrow have forgotten why they don’t go across the river, they will soon remember. ![]() ![]() Frank means to find this ruin and write about the horrors that occurred there, but little does he suspect that his presence in town will stir something that should have been left sleeping. Veteran of the Great War and failed academic Frank Nichols ignores a warning not to move into the home he inherits in the small southern town of Whitbrow a home his wife calls "The Canary House" because of its fresh coat of yellow paint.īut there is another house in the woods beyond the river, an estate that lies in ruins the once-magnificent Savoyard plantation, where a cruel forebear of Frank’s drove his slaves to murder him. ![]()
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