A review by gillothen
Chalk by Paul Cornell

3.0

A horror story about adolescents and the nature of adolescence, set in the early 80s. The violence is vividly - too vividly in places - described, but so is all the minutiae of being a teenager. Cornell deftly links the two, and the horror lies as much in the ways young people treat each other as in the mystical high drama. Anyone who has been bullied at school is quite likely to find this an uncomfortable, disturbing read.