Heart-Shaped Box (GOLLANCZ S.F.): A nail-biting ghost story that will keep you up at night

by JoeHill (Author)

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  Paperback
  2017

  $12.62

  '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 ...