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Zusatztext "Paul Tremblay's terrific A Head Full of Ghosts generates a haze of an altogether more serious kind: the pleasurable fog of calculated! perfectly balanced ambiguity." Informationen zum Autor Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie: A Novel , The Beast You Are , The Pallbearers Club , Survivor Song , Growing Things and Other Stories , Disappearance at Devil's Rock , A Head Full of Ghosts , and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland . His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin . His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times , Boston Globe , Los Angeles Times , and numerous "year's best" anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with his family and has a master's degree in mathematics. Klappentext A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts “ A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me! and I’m pretty hard to scare!” raved Stephen King about Paul Tremblay’s previous novel! which received widespread critical acclaim. Now Tremblay returns with another disturbing tale just as powerful and unsettling. Late one summer night! Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son! Tommy! has vanished without a trace in the woods of a nearby state park. The search isn’t yielding any answers! and Elizabeth and her eleven-year-old daughter! Kate! struggle to comprehend Tommy’s disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone! their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration. Neither the state nor local police have uncovered any leads. Josh and Luis! the friends who were the last to see Tommy before he vanished! may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park! when they were supposedly hanging out at a landmark they have renamed Devil’s Rock. Living in an all-too-real nightmare! Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a wraithlike apparition of Tommy materializes in her bedroom! while Kate and other local residents claim to see a shadowy figure peering through their windows in the dead of night. Then! random pages torn from Tommy’s journals begin to mysteriously appear—entries that reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with the phantasmagoric; the loss of his father! killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier; a folktale involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; the coming zombie “pocketclips”; and a horrific incident that Tommy believed connected them all. As the search grows more desperate! and the implications of what happened become more ominous and sinister! no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night at Devil’s Rock. Tremblay deftly blends literary fiction! psychological suspense! and supernatural horror into an absorbing tale that illuminates a parent’s darkest fears . . . and an adolescent’s darkest secrets. Eerie! thought-provoking! and soul-shattering! Disappearance at Devil’s Rock will haunt you long after Tommy’s final journal entry is read. Zusammenfassung A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale! a blend of literary fiction! psychological suspense! and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts. “ A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me! and I’m pretty hard to scare!” raved Stephen King about Pau...
