A Bone-Chilling List of the 19 Best Horror Books

A professor and his wife move to an ancestral family home near the ruins of a plantation to flee a scandal. The professor plans to write about the history of the plantation across the river and the horrors that occurred there, but the present reality of the town is just as chilling. Every month, the townspeople send two pigs adorned with flower garlands across the river, never to return. The answer to who "Those Across the River" ($14) are is tied to the professor's family history and is ultimately revealed in author Christopher Buehlman's chilling ending.