Heart-Shaped Box A Novel [Paperback]

“Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty….A Valentine from hell.”
 —Janet Maslin,New York Times

The publication of Joe Hill’s beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novelHeart-Shaped Boxwas 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 byAtlantamagazine, theTampa Tribune, theSt. Louis Post Dispatch, and theVillage Voice, to name but a few. Award-winning, #1New York Timesbestselling Neil Gaiman ofThe Sandman,The Graveyard Book, andAnansi Boysfame calls Joe Hill’s story of a jaded rock star haunted by a ghost he purchased on the internet, “relentless, gripping, powerful.” Open thisHeart-Shaped Boxfrom 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.

[Hill]s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun.A relentlessly scary ghost story.Powerful . . . a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations . . . a truly memorable debut.You cant go wrong with Heart-Shaped Box. Top Five Fiction-Books of 2007A fast-paced journey on wheels borrowed from hells used-car lot, and there arent a lot of comfort breaks...The pictures [Hill] painted colored my dreams and darkened my lc;