Heart-Shaped Box
a chilling, award-winning novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author
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3.7 • 7 Ratings
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- €4.49
Publisher Description
SOONER OR LATER THE DEAD CATCH UP....
'A true spine-tingler...will haunt you and startle you and stay with you and yes, visit you in your dreams' HARLAN COBEN
'Wild, mesmerizing...a Valentine from hell' NEW YORK TIMES
Judas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual, the grotesque: a cookbook for cannibals, a used hangman's noose. Usually the objects were sent by the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made him rich.
But this time, when his personal assistant told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet, Jude didn't think twice. But he should have.
Of all the ghosts around him - the abusive father, the battered, resentful child Jude once was, the bandmates he betrayed, Anna, the suicidal girl he loved and dumped - this new one means to haunt him all the way to hell.
Praise for Sunday Times bestseller Joe Hill:
'Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century.' ALAN MOORE
'You won't be able to stop burning through the pages' PAUL TREMBLAY
'A commanding, captivating read' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Fantastically compelling' THE OBSERVER
'Clever, gripping and packs a hell of a punch' JOANNE HARRIS
'Character-driven stories that enthral and thrill' DAILY MAIL
'Original and gripping' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Stoker-winner Hill features a particularly merciless ghost in his\t\t powerful first novel. Middle-aged rock star Judas Coyne collects morbid curios\t\t for fun, so doesn't think twice about buying a suit advertised at an online\t\t auction site as haunted by its dead owner's ghost. Only after it arrives does\t\t Judas discover that the suit belonged to Craddock McDermott, the stepfather of\t\t one of Coyne's discarded groupies, and that the old man's ghost is a malignant\t\t spirit determined to kill Judas in revenge for his stepdaughter's suicide.\t\t Judas isn't quite the cad or Craddock the avenging angel this scenario makes\t\t them at first, but their true motivations reveal themselves only gradually in a\t\t fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations.\t\t Hill (20th Century Ghosts) gives his\t\t characters believably complex emotional lives that help to anchor the\t\t supernatural in psychological reality and prove that (as one character\t\t observes) "horror was rooted in sympathy." His subtle and skillful treatment of\t\t horrors that could easily have exploded over the top and out of control helps\t\t make this a truly memorable debut.
