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.
It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of Savoyard still stand, where a longstanding debt of blood has never been forgotten-a debt that has been waiting patiently for Frank Nichols' homecoming.Īs tensions mount, listeners will find themselves on the edge of their seats anticipating the spine-tingling conclusion to this stunning novel.īuehlman is the most original voice in horror since Stephen King.The year is 1935. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations.
But in a letter delivered after her death, his aunt warned Frank not to live in the house-a warning Frank ignores.Īt first the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. An aunt Frank never knew bequeathed him a modest homestead, so he and Eudora take the opportunity to break ties with the past. Failed academic Frank Nichols and his "wife," Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate, the Savoyard Plantation, and the horrors that occurred there.
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