When Stephen King blessing a book assures you that you are in front of a good novel in several respects. Because once you read his autobiographical book about the profession of writer that occupies his life: While i write, you discover that the same profession is full of formal, argumentative and style perspectives. An accumulation of brilliant guidelines that make him a writer and critic capable of unraveling the validity of a novel in a multitude of nuances and in the whole of the same.
And the novel The Chalk Man is blessed by the teacher, so what we could expect, it is fulfilled.
We already know that childhood by definition is a time of happiness. But in certain genres the contrasts are most fruitful to settle a good plot. When we read a thriller or a horror novel we expect a point of confusion that makes us stir restless, upsetting those spaces in which we can only sense security, happiness and various benefits.
The paradox is an extremely realistic sensation that, however, takes us out of our schemes. It all starts with a gentle reading about naughty, restless children, but then the story is turned upside down.
At twelve, Eddie participates in his natural imaginative world, overflowing with good and bad ideas with which to hang out with his gang friends (The paradigmatic case of It from his own Stephen King)
The problem is when one of those bad ideas brings them closer to a space in which the imagination ends up tuning into the channel of evil, the one that haunts ideas about madness, the wildest dreams and finally a real unsettling drift.
The Chalk Man is the character on the other side of the mirror of childhood, that dark being who longs for some children to imagine too much and end up indulging in their fantasies coming from the dark side. And Eddie was his broadcast channel thanks to a particular incident ...
Eddie then accesses a particular plane of communication, introducing his friends to a fascinating game in which they manage to sketch that desired world apart from children.
But the communication channel ends up being completely occupied by the Chalk Man, who thanks to them will draw up a malicious plan to launch himself into the occupation of more and more souls.
The body of a first victim, a poor girl, will discover the atrocious world that Eddie and his friends have accessed. And perhaps it is already too late. Their lives may be traced by that evil capable of remaking itself over the years ...
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