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'Enthrallingly petrifying' SUNDAY TIMES 'Genuinely scary' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'A big engine of entertainment' GUARDIAN 'Full of chills and cliffhangers' NEW YORK TIMES Charlie Manx has the coolest car: a 1939 Rolls-Royce Wraith. AIl the kids love it, especially its NOS4A2 vanity plate. Coolest of all is when they get to ride in it, down the street and far away. Goodbye home, goodbye family. There's no returning once you've ridden in that Rolls-Royce Wraith. Those kids are Charlie's children now. Except for Vic McQueen. She's the only one who ever got away. Now all grown up with a son of her own, Charlie Manx is just a bad memory. Something to be forgotten. But Charlie never forgets. Not ever. And now, twenty-five years later, he's got his sights on Vic's young boy. He's going to make sure a McQueen will be with him for ever . . . Praise for Sunday Times bestselling author Joe Hill: 'A tour de force...King Sorrow is huge, sprawling - and absolutely fantastic' THE GUARDIAN 'Original and gripping' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century' ALAN MOORE 'A soaring epic and painfully intimate. You won't be able to stop burning through the pages' PAUL TREMBLAY 'Perfection from start to finish' DAILY EXPRESS 'A commanding, captivating read' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Epic...a ­multi-layered, rich response to the horrors and hopes of living today' DAILY MAIL 'A wild, genre-defying journey, packed with all sorts of unexpected twists and turns' DAILY MIRROR 'A glorious, wild ride' NEW YORK TIMES

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Hill's nightmarish, devilish protagonist is Charlie Manx - who uses his supernatural powers in his ghastly mission to kidnap and kill dozens of children... and to scare the living bejesus out of the readers... This book is well-written, extremely dark and awfully gruesome. * Daily Mail * will delight horror/fantasy fans...Steven King's son has the same knack as his dad for telling gruesome magical tales * MyM Magazine * A deliciously horrific fantasy...the work of a talented and evolving storyteller whose pages sure do turn. * The Skinny * Genuinely scary * Independent on Sunday *

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Joe Hill is the number one 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 television, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

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