Heart-Shaped Box - Softcover

Hill, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061944890 ISBN 13: 9780061944895

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2019

Synopsis

"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 off the Internet: a one-of-a-kind curiosity 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.

About this title

Review:

[Hill]'s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun."--Kirkus Reviews

"A relentlessly scary ghost story."--Bookseller (London)

"You can't go wrong with Heart-Shaped Box." Top Five Fiction-Books of 2007--The Observer

"A fast-paced journey on wheels borrowed from hell's used-car lot, and there aren't a lot of comfort breaks...The pictures [Hill] painted colored my dreams and darkened my mood even after I'd put the book down."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Powerful . . . a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations . . . a truly memorable debut."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Book Description:

`A compelling, spine-tingling chiller' (Harlan Coben), one of the most memorable debuts in decades, now ten years old! With a brand new exclusive introduction from the author.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0061944890
• ISBN 13: 9780061944895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400