The Chalk Man: The chilling and spine-tingling Sunday Times bestseller

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THE CHALK MAN alternates smoothly from past to present as Eddie and some old friends find out all has not been forgotten or revealed....even 30 years later. There's still more trouble to come evidenced by creepy dreams and even creepier visions from the grave. Regardless of its age, the Cerne Abbas Giant has become an important part of local culture and folklore, which often associates it with fertility. It is one of England's best-known hill figures and is a visitor attraction in the region. The grip the past has on the present reveals itself in ever more sinister and macabre ways in this utterly original and relentlessly compelling psychological thriller. The Chalk Man kept me guessing all the way to the end Fiona Neil, bestselling author of The Betrayals Absolutely loved it! Creepy, brilliant and tense, I could not put it down! Karen Hamilton, The Perfect Girlfriend

I thought that this was a well-written read with a unique story-line, compelling situations, and some great twists. I really wanted to find out how everything was going to come together but I had to stop myself from jumping ahead as I found I almost missed a few things that the author strategically slipped in here and there. There were a few things I wished I had answers for but overall, I thought it all came together well. And that ending? I NEVER saw it coming. W. M. F. Petrie, The Hill Figures of England, "III. The Giant of Cerne", Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Occasional Paper No. 7, 1926.

There are shades of Stephen King in this very creepy timeslip, as well as an evocative portrait of small-town life in 1980s Britain Guardian, Books of the Year C. J. Tudor's love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert.

CJ Tudor] creates a winningly dark atmosphere and serves up a beautifully timed stream of intriguing new plot elements Readers Digest Before I could even finish The Hiding Place — C.J. Tudor’s sophomore offering—I resigned myself to the fact that The Chalk Man would end up in my hands sooner rather than later. What can I say, the foreboding tone of that storyline and deliciously dark happenings piqued my curiosity. What else was this author capable of? Grinsell, Leslie (1980). "The Cerne Abbas Giant: 1764–1980". Antiquity. 54 (210): 29–33. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00042824. S2CID 163711386. a b c d e f g Koch, John T. (2006). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp.395–96. ISBN 1851094407.There are shades of Stephen King when the reality bends into the sinister, and a deliciously creepy finale' Daily Mail Eddie and his mates devise a secret code made up of chalk messages in different colours - each colour being assigned to one of the gang, so they know exactly which one of them wrote each message. They leave messages at each other's homes, and it provides weeks of fun until the day they discover chalk figures leading them to a dead body, but none of the gang had left these messages!

In 1989, Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry designed a set of motorbike leathers inspired by the Cerne Abbas Giant. [118] [119] [120] In 1994, girls from Roedean School painted a 24-metre (79ft) replica of the Giant on their playing field, the day before sports day. [121] A 1996 study found that some features have changed over time, concluding that the figure originally held a cloak over its left arm and an object, possibly a severed head, beneath its left hand. [11] The former presence of a cloak was corroborated in 2008 when a team of archaeologists using special equipment determined that part of the figure had been lost; the cloak might have been a depiction of an animal skin. [12] In 1993, the National Trust gave the Giant a "nose job" after years of erosion had worn it away. [13] [14] J. H. Bettey, "Notes and News: The Cerne Giant: another document?", Antiquity, Vol. 56 No. 216, March 1982, pp.51–52. A big thank you to NetGalley, Penguin Random House Canada and C. J. Tudor for an ARC in exchange for an honest review! In 1808, Dorset poet William Holloway published his poem "The Giant of Trendle Hill", [5] in which the Giant is killed by the locals by piercing its heart.

Eddie lives a quiet life in the same sleepy village in which he grew up. His day-to-day is fairly mundane. He's a school teacher, who lives in a big house with a younger roommate and maybe he drinks too much. Hamblin, Cory (2009). Serket's Movies: Commentary and Trivia on 444 Movies. Dorrance Publishing. p.327. ISBN 978-1434996053 . Retrieved 30 June 2015. Nice Media’s other projects include Nat Geo’s Genius: Aretha, starring Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin, while it is also working with MGM Television to developTC Boyle’s immigration novel The Tortilla Curtain with Will Schefer and Mark Olsen creating and showrunning. Strong characterisation, plenty of plot twists and an evocative portrait of small-town life in the 1980s add up to a riveting read The Guardian

a b Simpson, Craig (12 May 2021). "Rebel baron undressed the Cerne Abbas giant to get a rise out of Oliver Cromwell". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 21 May 2021 . Retrieved 21 May 2021. This assured debut is very much in the Stephen King vein - creepy with plenty of menace The Guardian J. H. Bettey, "The Cerne Abbas giant: the documentary evidence", Antiquity, Vol. 55, No. 214, July 1981, pp.118–21. Knight, Peter, The Cerne Giant – Landscape, Gods and the Stargate, 2013, Stone Seeker Publishing. ISBN 9780956034229

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a b William Stukeley, Minute Book of the Society of Antiquaries, Vol. IX, p. 233. Thursday 15 March 1764. Reproduced in Hy. Colley March M.D. F.S.A., "The Giant and the Maypole of Cerne", Proceedings, Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Vol.22, 1901', p. 116.