Heart-Shaped Box

<p><strong>Wild mesmerizing perversely witty....A Valentine from hell.<br/> --Janet Maslin <em>New York Times</em></strong></p><p>The publication of Joe Hill's beautifully textured deliciously scary debut novel <em>Heart-Shaped Box</em> was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for a work of skin-crawling supernatural terror. It was cited as a Best Book of the Year by <em>Atlanta</em> magazine the <em>Tampa Tribune</em> the <em>St. Louis Post Dispatch</em> and the <em>Village Voice</em> to name but a few. Award-winning #1<em> New York Times</em> bestselling Neil Gaiman of <em>The Sandman</em> <em>The Graveyard Book</em> and <em>Anansi Boys</em> fame calls Joe Hill's story of a jaded rock star haunted by a ghost he purchased on the internet relentless gripping powerful. Open this <em>Heart-Shaped Box</em> from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.<br/></p><p>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.<br/></p>