Heart-Shaped Box - by Joe Hill (Counterpack, Empty)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty .A Valentine from hell. Janet Maslin, New York TimesThe 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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty....A Valentine from hell."<br/> --Janet Maslin, <em>New York Times</em></strong></p><p>The publication of Joe Hill's beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel <em>Heart-Shaped Box</em> 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 <em>Atlanta</em> magazine, the <em>Tampa Tribune</em>, the <em>St. Louis Post Dispatch</em>, and the <em>Village Voice</em>, to name but a few. Award-winning, #1<em> New York Times</em> bestselling Neil Gaiman of <em>The Sandman</em>, <em>The Graveyard Book</em>, and <em>Anansi Boys</em> 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 <em>Heart-Shaped Box</em> from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.<br/></p><p>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.<br/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Powerful . . . a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations . . . a truly memorable debut."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> <strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"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."--<em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em><br><br>[Hill]'s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>"A relentlessly scary ghost story."--Bookseller (London)<br><br>"You can't go wrong with Heart-Shaped Box." Top Five Fiction-Books of 2007--The Observer<br>
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