Disappearance at Devil’s Rock A Novel
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock A Novel by Paul Tremblay is an illustrated edition published by HarperCollins on March 14, 2017. This 368-page book presents a chilling narrative centered around the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy, Tommy, which deeply affects his family. As his mother, Elizabeth Sanderson, grapples with the loss, she faces a growing sense of helplessness and frustration when the search yields no answers. The story unfolds in a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror, exploring the emotional turmoil of a family in crisis.
Readers will find a haunting exploration of grief and fear as Elizabeth and her daughter, Kate, navigate the aftermath of Tommy’s vanishing. The narrative delves into the unsettling experiences they encounter, including ghostly apparitions and mysterious journal entries that hint at Tommy’s troubled psyche. The story also involves his friends, Josh and Luis, who may hold secrets about the night Tommy disappeared at Borderland State Park, known locally as Devil’s Rock. This edition invites readers into a world where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur, leading to a shocking revelation about the events surrounding Tommy’s disappearance.
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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 Paul Tremblay’s previous novel. Now, Tremblay returns with another disturbing tale sure to unsettle readers.
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 local park.
The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy’s disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state police have uncovered no 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 a landmark the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock.
Living in an all-too-real nightmare, riddled with worry, pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a ghostly shadow of Tommy materializes in her bedroom, while Kate and other local residents claim to see a shadow peering through their windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages torn from Tommy’s journal 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; and a horrific incident that Tommy believed connects them.
As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened become more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night and Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock.
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