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by Joe Hill
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The Layaway Dragon
The Layaway Dragon rated it 9 years ago
TW: Rape and AbuseDef. not as good as Horns but not bad. It’s not scary but I can’t remember the last time a book caused scares like a movie so it’s not a big deal for me. I really read this kind of thing for the dark, creepy, and twisted, which Heart-Shaped Box has in spades. I do like how it’s not...
Casual Debris
Casual Debris rated it 9 years ago
Find my full review over at Casual Debris.Heart-Shaped Box should have been a novella.Joe Hill’s debut novel deals with Jude Coyne, a self-interested burnt-out rock star who purchases a ghost off the internet. This transaction results in a series of events that forces Coyne to take responsibility fo...
Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 9 years ago
GR Cleanup Project. Read in October 2011. This is a very creepy ghost story. Judas is an aging former rock star who has a passion for bizarre things and much younger goth chicks. When his personal assistant spots an email offering Jude a chance to bid on a ghost, Jude agrees and gets much more tha...
Bitter Scheherazade
Bitter Scheherazade rated it 10 years ago
Full discolsure: I've recommended this author to a great many people, based solely on his writing for the Legacy collection worthy Locke & Key. Does this book bring all of the boys to the yard in the way that Locke & Key did? dear judewe will ride at nightfall we will ride to the hole i am dead y...
Bookworm Blurbs
Bookworm Blurbs rated it 10 years ago
Aging, self-absorbed rock star Judas Coyne has a thing for the macabre -- his collection includes sketches from infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a trepanned skull from the 16th century, a used hangman's noose, Aleister Crowley's childhood chessboard, etc. -- so when his assistant tells him ab...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 10 years ago
I had no idea that I was in such need for a great horror book.To me, a great horror book will keep you up all night tensing listening for noises on the stairs.It will make you believe in bogeymen under the bed.It will make you go and triple check your doors and windows, because evil does exist and ...
Book Ramblings
Book Ramblings rated it 10 years ago
Joe Hill, definitely “a chip off the old block”, the old block being mega-author [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1362814142p2/3389.jpg] of course. From what I have read Hill tried his best to keep his relationship with Stephen King a secret and forge his own career ...
asandwich
asandwich rated it 10 years ago
Aging rockstar Judas Coyne buys a ghost through an internet auction site to add to his collection of bizarre and morbid oddities, which proves to be about the worst online purchase ever - and not because it turns out to be a fake; rather the opposite, in fact. The ghost of ex-mesmerist, dowser, and ...
Ungh... Arrr... Books!
Ungh... Arrr... Books! rated it 11 years ago
This book took me a long time to finish (3 weeks!) even though I was enjoying it. It wasn't very long (400 pages, according to Amazon), but I was not in a reading zone and I think this review might suffer some because of that. I didn't take notes (like I usually do—laptop meltdown and all) and throu...
Gothie Blogs
Gothie Blogs rated it 11 years ago
Really enjoyed this as well.Loved the twist and the ending
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