Chalk: A Novel

This is what horror ought to be: primal personal and powerful. ― Seanan McGuirePaul Cornell plumbs the depths of magic and despair in Chalk a brutal exploration of bullying in Margaret Thatchers 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.