by JoeHill (Author)
'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought 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 ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 06 Sep 2007
ISBN 10: 0575082151
ISBN 13: 9780575082151
Book Overview: HEART-SHAPED BOX was a HB bestseller for Gollancz and made the New York Times Top Ten; it is still selling on strongly in the UK The supernatural is making a strong come-back, and this is a perfect moment for a creepy and fresh kind of ghost story 'Gory, exhilarating and surprisingly tender stuff. There's fresh blood on the horror scene' METRO 'A relentlessly scary ghost story' BOOKSELLER 'While the novel's occult elements are horrific enough, the true horror is the very human cycle of abuse, as victim becomes victimiser. And the redemption is achieved without recourse to sentimentality' GUARDIAN 'He's successfully woven strands of family drama and American road movie with his horror, and that horror itself combines traditional motifs with images all its own, old-fashioned ghost stories with uncanny applications of modern technology. Joe Hill's debut is certainly the work of an important new horror voice' PRESS ASSOCIATION Joe Hill's award-winning collection 20th CENTURY GHOSTS, will be published in HB by Gollancz in October.