Book Review: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TOM NERO by TJ Price

The Disappearance of Tom Nero by TJ Price is a truly breathless read; inventive, beautifully written, and completely unsettling.

Price has crafted a dizzying, labyrinthine tale that sucks you into it like some kind of literary black hole, slowly consuming you from the outside-in. The design of the book is phenomenal, too—from the doodle-infested journal entries of Part One, to the Shunn-formatted short story of Part Two, to the studious, faux-Foreword of Part Three—all adding to the eerie, almost out-of-body reading experience.

It’s a haunting book in every sense of the word; it feels like the story has now taken up residence in my mind indefinitely—not unlike the infectious word-demon lurking at the screb heart of this must-read meta-horror mystery.