This ghost isn't just in his head it's real. Some impulses require no consideration.īut this ghost is different from the spirits that have haunted Jude most of his life: the abusive father he fled as a boy, the bandmates he betrayed, the lover he abandoned and who killed herself. So naturally when he learns there's a ghost for sale on the internet, Jude doesn't think twice. He has a used hangman's noose, a cookbook for cannibals, a snuff movie. Rock star Judas Coyne is a collector of the bizarre and the grotesque. Here's the description, straight from the author's site: Subterranean Press is proud to announce the limited edition of Joe Hill's first novel. Very Fine without any flaws.ĭust jacket and interior illustrations by Vincent Chong This edition is now OUT OF PRINT from the publisher. What makes this book significant is that "Heart-Shaped Box" was Joe Hill's first published novel in 2007. This is number 277 of 500, in the first state by the publisher.
Personally signed by the author Joe Hill directly onto the special numbered limitation page. He's also the oldest son of novelists Stephen King and Tabitha King.
I hope Joe Hill has some more on the way.Personally signed by Joe Hill, the award-winning fantasy/horror author whose novels include Heart-Shaped Box (2007) and NOS4A2 (2013). I definitely recommend this one for people who don't mind a good scare. Between sections, there are a couple of musical breaks-the first one startled me, but only because I wasn't expecting it. The narrator did a fine job, even with voices for female characters, which is often hard for a guy. The production of the audiobook itself was good, too. By the end of the book he'd won me over-I was cheering for his side all the way. Even though he has apparently been mean to others through some of his life, I found him fairly easy to sympathize with through most of the action. I particularly liked the main character, Judas Coyne. All the characters had fully realized story arcs, even some of the minor ones who turned out later to be more important than they seemed at first. Although this book is frightening, and a thriller, the writing doesn't suffer. Let's just say that some stuff happens that scares even the main character-a guy who owns a cookbook for cannibals. I won't describe any of those sections for fear of spoiling other readers' fun. But parts of Heart-Shaped Box scared me so much I could barely listen, even in a brightly-lit health club with dozens of other people there. I read a lot of stories that I think are going to be scary, but then I'm disappointed when it turns out the monster really isn't much of a monster. I figured it would be good and scary, and I wasn't wrong. I bought this book for the concept: a dead man's suit that comes with a ghost. Waiting - with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand.Ī multiple award-winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror. It's the real thing.Īnd suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom ated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang.standing outside his window.staring out from his widescreen TV. What's one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts: of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. I will sell my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder.įor a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals.a used hangman's noose.a snuff film.
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