Heart-Shaped Box

Heart-Shaped Box

by JoeHill (Author)

Synopsis

'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock. But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't make the dogs bark; the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life ...

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 01 May 2008

ISBN 10: 0575081864
ISBN 13: 9780575081864
Book Overview: 'A compelling, spine-tingling chiller' (Harlan Coben), one of the most memorable debuts in decades

Media Reviews
Hill's book is satisfyingly creepy and bleak, ideal for those who relish a good scare. * WATERSONES' BOOKS QUARTERLY *
A supernatural thriller which is well written, superbly paced, convincingly plotted and populated with intriguing characters, a story that will grip you from first word to last, the embodiment of the phrase page turner, and for a first novel that's damned good going. * BLACK STATIC *
Author Bio

Joe Hill is a recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship and the winner of the A.E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize, William Crawford, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards. His short fiction has appeared in literary, mystery and horror collections and magazines in Britain and America.

For more information, visit www.joehillfiction.com, visit joehillsthrills.tumblr.com, or follow @Joe_Hill on twitter.