Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill

Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill

"Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty....A Valentine from hell."

 --Janet Maslin, New York Times

The publication of Joe Hill's beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for a work of skin-crawling supernatural terror. It was cited as a Best Book of the Year by Atlanta magazine, the Tampa Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the Village Voice, to name but a few. Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Neil Gaiman of The Sandman, The Graveyard Book, and Anansi Boys fame calls Joe Hill's story of a jaded rock star haunted by a ghost he purchased on the internet, "relentless, gripping, powerful." Open this Heart-Shaped Box from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.

Aging death-metal rock legend Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangman's noose...a snuff film. But nothing he possesses is as unique or as dreadful as his latest purchase in this chilling gothic horror novel: a one-of-a-kind curiosity bought off the Internet that arrives at his door in a black heart-shaped box...a musty dead man's suit still inhabited by the spirit of its late owner. And now everywhere Judas Coyne goes, the old man is there--watching, waiting, dangling a razor blade on a chain from his bony hand.

Joe Hill is the author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped Box, which were both #1 New York Times bestsellers. Horns, his second novel, was adapted into a feature film starring Daniel Radcliffe, and NOS4A2, his third, will be adapted into an AMC television series. 20th Century Ghosts, his collection of short stories, won the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Odd Weather, a collection of novellas, was published in the autumn of 2017 and is his most recent work. With his long-running comic book series Locke & Key, which features the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodriguez, he won the Eisner Award for Best Writer. In the not-too-distant future, that one will be a Netflix show.