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"""Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty....A Valentine from hell."" --Janet Maslin, New York Times The 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."

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A relentlessly scary ghost story. -- Bookseller (London) You can't go wrong with Heart-Shaped Box. Top Five Fiction-Books of 2007--The Observer [Hill]'s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun. --Kirkus Reviews A relentlessly scary ghost story. --Bookseller (London) 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 [Hill] s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun. --Kirkus Reviews A relentlessly scary ghost story. --Bookseller (London) 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 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 relentlessly scary ghost story. --Bookseller (London) 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 [Hill]'s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun. --Kirkus Reviews 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 [Hill]'s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun. --Kirkus Reviews A relentlessly scary ghost story. --Bookseller (London) 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 Powerful . . . a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations . . . a truly memorable debut. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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

Powerful . . . a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations . . . a truly memorable debut. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

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