Like, the supernatural elements were introduced basically via a phone call infodump that seemed extremely weird, tbh. The way the story starts was less impressive.
Very impressive in that way, even though I really hate constant feelings of anxieta when consuming fictions. It did not let up, you were constantly on the edge of your seat freaking out because FUCKING HELL HOW ARE THEY GONNA SURVIVE THIS SHIT? And it also managed to be scary, and not only stress-inducing. This special edition includes an excerpt from Joe Hill's newest novel, Horns, and a letter from the author … ( more) Waitingâ?with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand.Ī multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror. seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang. It's the real thing.Īnd suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door. What's one more?īut what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsâ?of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. I will "sell" my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder.įor a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. 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. 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. Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals.
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