Heart-Shaped Box
«HEART-SHAPED BOX is a true spine-tingler ... right away there was a subtle line that made the hairs on the back of my neck go up in a way I haven't experienced since I first discovered great horror as a teenager ... it will haunt you and startle you and stay with you and yes, visit you in your dreams - Harlan Coben, No. 1 bestselling author of TELL NO ONE, on Amazon.com
Hill's prose is lean and precise, and he renders Jude's world with impressive confidence . . . not only well-written and terrifying, but also surprisingly moving - Scott Smith, bestselling author of THE RUINS and A SIMPLE PLAN, on Amazon.comSubtle and skilful . . . a truly memorable debut - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)»
'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail.
So Jude did.
He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story.
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So Jude did.
He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock.
But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't make the dogs bark; the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life ...
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Gollancz
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 432
- ISBN
- 9781473222700
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«HEART-SHAPED BOX is a true spine-tingler ... right away there was a subtle line that made the hairs on the back of my neck go up in a way I haven't experienced since I first discovered great horror as a teenager ... it will haunt you and startle you and stay with you and yes, visit you in your dreams - Harlan Coben, No. 1 bestselling author of TELL NO ONE, on Amazon.com
Hill's prose is lean and precise, and he renders Jude's world with impressive confidence . . . not only well-written and terrifying, but also surprisingly moving - Scott Smith, bestselling author of THE RUINS and A SIMPLE PLAN, on Amazon.comSubtle and skilful . . . a truly memorable debut - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)»