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Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
"We have trouble lookin' back into your world, for whatever it's worth. You maybe noticed the black lines over our eyes. Think of them as the sunglasses of the livin' dead."
This is Joe Hill’s debut novel and the second of his I have read. This is the story of Jude, an aging rock star and collector of all things macabre, who is offered a suit haunted by a ghost. Jude has to have it for his collection and it is delivered in a heart-shaped box and promptly the ghost of an old man in a fedora with black scribbles instead of eyes moves into his house. I will not go any further but the story slowly unfolds from there.
I thought this would be a scary ghost story but it was a running-for-your-life story with horror elements -- and those elements are more about the frightening ways real people can hurt you. More specifically, your family, as most of the characters in this book were abused in many different ways.
P.S. I loved Angus and Bon.
P.P.S. The chapter at Bammy's was my favourite of the lot.
This is Joe Hill’s debut novel and the second of his I have read. This is the story of Jude, an aging rock star and collector of all things macabre, who is offered a suit haunted by a ghost. Jude has to have it for his collection and it is delivered in a heart-shaped box and promptly the ghost of an old man in a fedora with black scribbles instead of eyes moves into his house. I will not go any further but the story slowly unfolds from there.
I thought this would be a scary ghost story but it was a running-for-your-life story with horror elements -- and those elements are more about the frightening ways real people can hurt you. More specifically, your family, as most of the characters in this book were abused in many different ways.
P.S. I loved Angus and Bon.
P.P.S. The chapter at Bammy's was my favourite of the lot.