Joe Hill is the author of a previous novel, “Heart-Shaped Box”, a story collection, “20th Century Ghosts”, and an occasional comic series, “Locke & Key”.
Hill’s debut is not only well-written and terrifying, but also—as it draws to its close—surprisingly moving. So go ahead, take a chance, and open his Heart-Shaped Box. I think you’ll be happy you did.
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 h…