The remarkable debut novel by a new master of dark fantasy...Heart-Shaped Box Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangmans noose...a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude cant help but reach for his wallet. I will sell my stepfathers ghost to the highest bidder.... For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead mans suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isnt afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsof an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. Whats one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost. Its the real thing. And suddenly the suits previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door... seated in Judes restored vintage Mustang...standing outside his window...staring out from his widescreen TV. Waitingwith a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand.... A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe...The remarkable debut novel by a new master of dark fantasy...Heart-Shaped Box Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangmans noose...a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude cant help but reach for his wallet. I will sell my stepfathers ghost to the highest bidder.... For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead mans suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isnt afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsof an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. Whats one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost. Its the real thing. And suddenly the suits previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door... seated in Judes restored vintage Mustang...standing outside his window...staring out from his widescreen TV. Waitingwith a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand.... A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.(展開)
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