"A singularly creepy modern-day ghost story.... Hill knows how to construct a spooky scenario with rich emotional underpinnings." - San Francisco ChronicleAging death-metal rock legend Jodas 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 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 the 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.
"Heart-Shaped Box is a fine mix of psychological terror and gruesome horror.... Remarkable, moving, and well-crafted." -
Denver PostErupting out of mudane surroundings, the shocks in Hill's riveting debut novel can be lurid and blood-drenched, or as quietly chilling as a casual phone call from and old, dead friend." -
Entertainment Weekly"[A] cardiac hazard of a first novel.... A surprising, inventive ghost-storyteller... [Hill] is carving out a niche of his own." -
Chicago TribuneJOE HILL is the author of the novel
Horns and the acclaimed story collection
20th Century Ghosts. He calls New England home.
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