Heart-Shaped Box

A Novel

Hardcover, 384 pages

English language

Published Feb. 13, 2007 by William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-06-114793-7
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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 as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly 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 …

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You can tell Joe Hill is Stephen King‘s son. Father and son both have the unique ability to make me sit down to read a few chapters, and have me reading until the cat’s gone down for the night, the pages run out, and I need to hold my hands over the next paragraph to keep my eyes from jumping ahead.

That being said, the story is wonderful. Without giving anything away, Joe Hill weaves an intricate tale that ties up every loose end he unweaves while leaving the reader about as satisfied as (s)he can be with tales of the macabre.

This was my first foray into the progeny of Stephen King and Tabitha Spruce King, and it will not be the last.

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