“Lures you into a different era, seduces you with eloquent prose and sensual period details, then clamps down on your jugular.an outstanding debut.”-Hank Schwaeble, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Diabolical Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Fatal Error “An unsettling brew of growing menace spiked with flashes of genuine terror-do not miss this chilling debut.”-F. “Wonderfully eerie from start to finish-a novel sure to enthrall readers of all stripes.”-Grant Blackwood, New York Times bestselling author The ending is exceedingly clever.”- Boston Herald “Beautifully written.with a cast of Southern characters so real you can almost see the sweat roll down the page. A graceful, horrific read.”-Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“One of the best first novels I’ve ever read.”-Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author 'Cormac McCarthy's The Road meets Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in this frightful medieval 't scrimp on earthy horror and lyrical writing in the face of unspeakable horrors.an author to watch.'- Kirkus Reviews 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.Īs hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm-that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age-one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven, and of hell on earth.Īnd Lucifer said: “ Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down.” His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” ( California Literary Review), “graceful horrific” (Patricia Briggs).

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