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Zusatztext "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." Informationen zum Autor Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels King Sorrow , The Fireman , NOS4A2 , Horns , and Heart-Shaped Box ; Strange Weather , a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts . He is also the Eisner Award–winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key . Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse), Black Phone 2 (Blumhouse), and Horns (Red Granite/Mandalay) — with much more to come! Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung “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 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. 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. ...
