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As Tyson begins to use the new desk, he finds himself writing copy at an unfathomable speed, becomes so focused on writing that he binges on all-night, all-day sessions that take a serious physical and psychological toll.
Soon, Tyson begins acting strange. Violent.
Meanwhile, a mysterious woman, Diana Montresor, is making inquiries with her sources around the globe for the whereabouts of a certain artifact she, and her family, have been hunting for centuries.
As forces converge on Tyson's world, he faces the hardest choice of his life: Does he let go of his new muse, allow it to be taken back to the void of history where it belongs? Or does he continue to live as the desk's mouthpiece, not only regaining his glory days as a famous writer, but achieving levels of success he's only dreamed of?
As the desk—and the force that lives inside it—grows stronger, he must choose.
Before it's too late.
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Release date
February 3, 2023 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781624619410
- File size: 296029 KB
- Duration: 10:16:43
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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December 5, 2022
The well-worn trope of a horror author grappling with writer’s block drives this disappointing effort from Fracassi (Boys in the Valley). Manhattanite Tyson Parks has authored multiple bestselling chillers, but he’s hit a dry patch. Stuck in his efforts to produce a book that matches the pitch for which his publisher paid a hefty advance, Tyson gets bailed out by chance when his wife, Sarah, buys him an antique wooden desk adorned with strange symbols and the words, “DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.” Sitting at it to write revitalizes Tyson, who, without fully realizing what he’s doing, turns out an entirely new book within hours, one so frightening that one person who reads it becomes physically ill. Fracassi intersperses Tyson’s experiences with sections on the desk’s grim history, but regardless of timeline, the characters come across as types rather than real people, and despite abundant gore there’s nothing really unsettling here. Purple prose (laughter is described as “great, bellowing howls that carry through the vacuous halls of the near-empty castle like wind through a black ship’s sails, freezing the hearts of any who hear it, heralding death, and madness”) doesn’t help. This is best suited for the author’s die-hard fans.
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