Poe's work as a whole is a series of haunting improvisations on themes from the macabre that are hard to categorise, dazzlingly original and posthumously influential on an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and RL Stevenson to Yeats, Wilde and Borges

His work continues to enthral. His greatest tales (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum) radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern note

If genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation, Poe had it in spades

His reputation as a master of the grotesque and macabre has veiled the real cause of his fame: an astonishing mastery of language and literary technique which made Arthur Ransome, himself no mean story technician and a considerable literary critic, liken his stories to rare coloured goblets or fantastic metalwork

Whoa! I raced through this in a couple of days. SO good, SO gripping, SO clever. A runaway train of a book

Sublimely executed, this is a dystopian thriller of real class.

Fast-paced with twists and thrills, this brutally chilling novel will keep you on tenterhooks

Atmospheric, with suspense dialled up to the max, and at times heavily claustrophobic, this is a page-turner which flirts heavily with horror and delivers on all counts

A chilling, captivating thrill ride

Fast-paced atmospheric story

Tudor has a lot of scary, horror-tinged fun

Without fail, CJ delivers every single time. The Drift is a tense, nail biting thriller that's smart, gripping and brilliantly twisty. Faultless.

Absolutely raced through it...An action-packed and chilling horror thriller that's like Station Eleven re-crafted by John Carpenter

Wow! Very clever, mysterious and thrilling with twists and turns that will smack you in the face like many evil snowballs

Heart-poundingly mysterious, breathtakingly twisty, and emotive like a sucker-punch to the chest. The Drift is unputdownable!

In this tour de force from Tudor (The Burning Girls), a postapocalyptic thriller, a haven called the Retreat, which has been constructed for a select few in the wake of a devastating new plague, proves to be not much of a haven. Some of those in residence at the mountainside facility begin to disappear, even as vital supplies go missing and power outages increase, leading up to the discovery of a body floating in the recreational pool. Meanwhile, a cable car transporting a group to the Retreat is stranded mid-journey; its occupants, including Meg, a former homicide cop, are stunned to find they're trapped with a corpse, whom Meg recognizes. And a second group also faces a threat to their lives; Hannah Grant has been evacuated from a boarding school, but the bus she's in crashes, possibly not by accident, trapping her and several others. Tudor shifts among the three situations, teasing a common link, and gradually ratchets up the pressure on his characters as they try to preserve their humanity while surviving. This is a masterpiece of its kind.

A captivating thrill ride

A gripping tale

Praise for C. J. Tudor

Some writers have it and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time

C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can't wait to see what she does next

If you like my stuff, you'll like this

Britain's female Stephen King

Taut, tense and deliciously dark, C.J. Tudor's post-apocalyptic thrill ride is unmissable

A taut and pacy thriller...North has a masterful approach to a sensitive subject and keeps you hooked.

The most original crime novel you'll read this year.

Perceptive, disturbing, mind-bending, and unafraid to explore the poison that infects families living under the spotlight, this is a gripping read from the first page right through to the final, breath-taking dénouement.