Chalk

By Paul Cornell

Book Overview

"This is what horror ought to be: primal, personal, and powerful." -- Seanan McGuire

Paul Cornell plumbs the depths of magic and despair in Chalk, a brutal exploration of bullying in Margaret Thatcher's England.

Andrew Waggoner has always hung around with his fellow losers at school, desperately hoping each day that the school bullies -- led by Drake -- will pass him by in search of other prey. But one day they force him into the woods, and the bullying escalates into something more; something unforgivable; something unthinkable.

Broken, both physically and emotionally, something dies in Waggoner, and something else is born in its place.

In the hills of the West Country a chalk horse stands vigil over a site of ancient power, and there Waggoner finds in himself a reflection of rage and vengeance, a power and persona to topple those who would bring him low.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765390957
• ISBN13: 9780765390950
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"