The Disappearance of Annie Thorne by CJ Tudor

The disappearance of Annie Thorne
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CJ Tudor She recently arrived to hang the band of the author of thrillers openly connected with the purest horror genre. At least that fear that connects with childhood fears, those that make us keep looking under the bed or quickly look for the light switch.

It was thus manifested in The chalk man and he follows that path in this new novel that, despite the recurring thing, manages to surprise and disturb again.

An apparently calm voice, that of Joe Thorne, transmits to us from an initial safe distance, the story of the disappearance of his sister Annie. Yesterday and today return to rubber band over a time that seems linked by the sinister feeling that evil governs everything, past, present and future, unless the rope finally breaks.

The key, the place where the suffocating knot of fear could be cut is in Arnhill. Only Arnhill happens to be a place covered by the dust of yesterday, like the worst memories of our lives, like the worst moments of anguish.

Joe hesitates. He does not know if he is right to return and he makes it clear to us. Something inside him impels him to run away once more, like when he was fifteen years old and his little sister returned from the depths in which her soul was trapped in the barely two days that she remained missing.

But whoever rules the shadows, fear and madness knows that it only takes a bit of a tug on the rope for Joe to have to face him again in the most unjust of struggles. Because in the blockage that is born of fear there can be no opponent, only possession of the soul as the final achievement of the insane work.

But nothing better to ensure that Joe will return to Arnhill than to resort to the memory of guilt. Because he always knew that if he had not visited the old mine, nothing would have happened. Annie would not have been in that state of eerie shock and he would not have mortgaged her days in the darkness under her bed.

The story, of course, goes from more to less in intensity. But it is also true that the appearance of the mail that indirectly quotes Joe with his past is such a powerful idea that it is already enough hook to continue devouring pages while we enter the galleries of that mine, the perfect metaphor of the path towards introspection of the atavistic terror that shelters Joe.

The supernatural ends up sliding little by little, without the fanfare of so-called works of easy horror. The descriptions around Arnhill are enough to touch that fiber of the most maddening suspense, the one that prevents you from abandoning the reading.

And it's happening again ... That second part of the email is the one that brings a tension that covers everything. Joe is once again the child worried about his sister, still unaware of what awaits him, his sister, all his old friends and anyone else in that town already cursed thanks to the adventure spirit of some poor children.

You can now buy the novel The Disappearance of Annie Thorne, the new book by CJ Tudor, here:

The disappearance of Annie Thorne
Available here
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