“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
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
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.