Disappearance at Devil's Rock

By Paul Tremblay

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062363271
• ISBN13: 9780062363275
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Great when the writing is centered around the adult characters.

The writing for the kids actively hurt me. I had picked this novel up because I heard from a few sources that this book was a good spooky horror book. I agree mostly, the parts that are centered around the adults feel interesting to read. I was totally engaged when I was reading through those parts. Admittedly, I may be out of touch with what 13 year olds talk like now, the setting DOES take place in modern day, however any time any child had dialogue, it make me cringe. It feels like an old person attempting to explain to me what the word BRUH means. I had to put the book down because for a while because of that. Otherwise though, the story is compelling. I wouldn't give this book a negative review, I would just ask Paul to stop writing children, or at least write them differently. Over all worth picking up as a library book. Ive edited this review a few times. I forgot I didn't really enjoy the ending either.

Great book

Kept me on edge of seat I read this super fast couldn't put it down