Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife 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. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm, there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice.

It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of the Savoyard Plantation still...

Christopher Buehlman s "Those Across the River" delivered an unsettling brew of growing menace spiked with flashes of genuine terror. * Now, the World Fantasy Award-nominated author stakes a bloody claim on vampire mythology
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"The secret is, vampires are real and I am one."
"The secret is, I m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I m not sorry..."
New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing...

Kinch Na Shannack vděčí cechu pobertů za své zlodějské vzdělání, které zahrnuje mimo jiné páčení zámků, boj s nožem, šplhání po zdech, lhaní, výrobu pastí a také několik snazších kouzel. Ve snaze splatit cechu svůj dluh číhá u staré lesní cesty a chystá se okrást dalšího pocestného, který mu zkříží cestu. Tentokrát si však Kinch Na Shannack vybral špatný cíl. Rytířka Galva přežila kruté skřetí války a je služebnicí bohyně smrti. Pátrá po své královně, která je pohřešovaná od chvíle, kdy město daleko na severu padlo do...