Heart-Shaped Box

Name: Heart-Shaped Box
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.24 (41 reviews)
Author: Joe Hill
ISBN: 9780061262395

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: Stephen Lang

Unabridged: 11 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/13/2007

Categories: Fiction, Ghost, Occult & Supernatural, Science Fiction

Synopsis

“Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty….A Valentine from hell.”
—Janet Maslin, New York Times The publication of Joe Hill’s beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for a work of skin-crawling supernatural terror. It was cited as a Best Book of the Year by Atlanta magazine, the Tampa Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the Village Voice, to name but a few. Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Neil Gaiman of The Sandman, The Graveyard Book, and Anansi Boys fame calls Joe Hill’s story of a jaded rock star haunted by a ghost he purchased on the internet, “relentless, gripping, powerful.” Open this Heart-Shaped Box from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.

About Joe Hill

Born in 1972 to authors Tabitha (nee Spruce) and Stephen King, Joseph Hillstrom King grew up in the state of Maine along with his younger brother, (also a writer) Owen King.

At age 9, Joe appeared in the 1982 film Creepshow, which was written by his famous father. In 1997 he chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named), out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of Stephen King, one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film Freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman.

Hill currently lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Jennifer on 2007-05-17 18:11:52

Loved, loved, loved this book! Really a great story and wonderful character development. At the begining, I found myself really disliking Judas Coyne, but by the end of the book I was a big fan. I particularly enjoyed this writer's style--descriptive, but not overly so, yet able to paint vivid images in the readers' mind. This book had me on the edge of my seat and completely drew me in. Would love to see this made into a movie...

AudiobooksNow review by Jennifer on 2007-05-22 20:16:09

I found the description of the book more interesting than the book itself.

AudiobooksNow review by Fran on 2007-07-20 09:44:08

Had a hard time staying interested. Half way thru, I just put in the last CD so I could see how it ended. Glad I didn't waste more time listening to the whole think.

AudiobooksNow review by Shay on 2009-10-27 13:57:47

Didn't even finish the book...no interest.

AudiobooksNow review by J-man on 2011-06-15 18:34:51

I loved this book and just started listening to it this morning better than horns Joe hill is a talented writer and it shows in his set up and follow through of this story

Goodreads review by Will on May 11, 2023

When aging, retired rocker Judas Coyne buys a ghost on-line, he gets more than he bargained for, as the ghost, which arrives by way of a used suit in a heart-shaped box, is no blithe spirit. I was most reminded of Freddie Krueger, as the hostile ghost sets out to destroy Coyne and all those he holds......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on November 02, 2022

Guess what, my friends, I might have made the wrong reading choice to celebrate the horror week on Goodreads and Halloween month! Don’t get me wrong, I read so many works of Joe Hill and this book already get rusty and dusty for waiting inside the stomach of my tbr monster forever! So I cut the cord......more

Goodreads review by Baba on May 17, 2022

My third Joe Hill, and my second reading of one of his novels. I'm afraid once again I am underwhelmed, maybe having read Locke & Key Omnibus 1 twice before reading one of his books, my expectations were way too high? I should add other than Odd Thomas I can't stand ghost stories. A rock star in his......more

Goodreads review by Delee on October 11, 2017

3.5 This is the first book written by Joe Hill that I have read, and the fact that it was his debut is pretty impressive to me. I picked it up for a song awhile ago- never being sure if I was going to read it or not- I was worried that I wasn't going to connect with Jude and Georgia. I don't always h......more

Goodreads review by Mort on November 07, 2020

For those of you who don't know, Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King. And, yip, the old man gave him some tips, that's for sure. One of the reasons Stephen King has inspired just about every horror writer for decades, is that he writes small town 'America' better than anybody. I say 'America', becaus......more