Heart-Shaped Box
"Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty....A Valentine from hell."
--Janet Maslin, New York Times
The 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 Y...show more
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3/5 It started strong in the horror department but I don't think it stayed as unsettling throughout. I enjoyed the writing just not my ideal horror book.
It's a horror novel that follows the story of an aging rock star named Judas Coyne, who purchases a ghost on an online auction site as a macabre addition to his collection of oddities. When the ghost arrives, Judas and his girlfriend Georgia are plunged into a nightmare of supernatural horror that threatens to destroy them both.
The book is well-written, with a dark and chilling narrative that is both suspenseful and disturbing. The author effec...read more
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