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Heart-Shaped Box CD

By Joe Hill, Stephen Lang (Reader)

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| Audio CD | 9780061235870

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The remarkable debut novel by a new master of dark fantasy...Heart-Shaped Box

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangman's noose...a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. But nothing he possessesContinue

The remarkable debut novel by a new master of dark fantasy...Heart-Shaped Box

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangman's noose...a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet.

I will “sell” my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder....

For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn't afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts—of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What's one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost. It's the real thing.

And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door... seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang...standing outside his window...staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting—with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand....

A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.

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  • Gripping supernatural story, was hooked right until the end, both with this and 'horns'. However, i think he runs out of steam a bit when it comes to writing endings.

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    Baileysbsc said on Aug 2, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Stephen King's son (yes, Joe Hill's full name is Joe Hillstrom King) follows the tracks of his father in a novel that reminds a lot of King's early works: tension, supernatural occurrences, some gore, a lot of fear.
    It is very well written and digs under the reader's skin from the early stages, and ... (continue)

    Stephen King's son (yes, Joe Hill's full name is Joe Hillstrom King) follows the tracks of his father in a novel that reminds a lot of King's early works: tension, supernatural occurrences, some gore, a lot of fear.
    It is very well written and digs under the reader's skin from the early stages, and remains balanced until the end. Some passages seem taken straight from King's recent works, but mostly Joe Hill found his own voice to deal with similar - but not identical - themes.
    Creepy, and so good.

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    Marco Piva said on Mar 8, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Hang On Tight ...

    ... this is a wild ride! The horror and ghost story both were done superbly. Hill tightly plotted his story to include a lot of detail, but moved the narrative at a faster pace than do most of today's horror writers. Hill did stretch the bubble on the gore factor but he still stayed in the area of m ... (continue)

    ... this is a wild ride! The horror and ghost story both were done superbly. Hill tightly plotted his story to include a lot of detail, but moved the narrative at a faster pace than do most of today's horror writers. Hill did stretch the bubble on the gore factor but he still stayed in the area of my acceptance. The idea of buying a ghost, which kicks the entire thing off, is quite unique. Hill also comes up with canine ghosts to protect the hero. I'll have to research that. It may be a first. Anyway, this was a ghost story I'll re-read several times.

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    Woodenwiz said on Feb 1, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Like father, like son

    Good book - quite a simple story and little bit predictable as it went on. But had some good shocks in it.
    Very similar style to his dad (Stephen King) - not just in genre, but something about the tone of writing too. If you're a SK fan, I can recommend this.

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    Athene1710 said on Oct 7, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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