Heart-Shaped Box

“Wild mesmerizing perversely witty….A Valentine from hell.” —Janet Maslin New York TimesThe publication of Joe Hill’s beautifully textured deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box 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 Atlanta magazine the Tampa Tribune the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Village Voice to name but a few. Award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling Neil Gaiman of The Sandman The Graveyard Book and Anansi Boys 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 Heart-Shaped Box from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.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.