Heart-Shaped Box
By Joe Hill
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780061944895, 400pp.)
Publication Date: December 3, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Mass Market Paperback (March 4, 2008), Compact Disc (July 2007), Large Print (April 12, 2007), Hardcover (February 13, 2007), Compact Disc (February 13, 2007), Hardcover (February 2007)
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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.
Joe Hill is the author of a previous novel, Heart-Shaped Box, a story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, and an occasional comic series, Locke & Key.
"Powerful . . . a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations . . . a truly memorable debut."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"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
"A relentlessly scary ghost story."
-Bookseller (London)
[Hill]'s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun."
-Kirkus Reviews
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