Heart-Shaped Box

a chilling, award-winning novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

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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. 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 . . .

Read by Stephen Lang

(p) 2007 HarperCollins Publishers©2007 Joe Hill

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This is the third Joe Hill story I've purchased in as many months and right now I'm very much a huge fan of his work.

This is just a fantastic premise for a story. You'll be gripped from the beginning and stay until the wonderful end. I loved this just as much as Horns and Nos4r2. My only regret is that I didn't get around to listening to this years ago and feel somewhat left behind.

Great performance by Stephen Lang, not as truly awesome as Nos4r2 performance by Kate Mulgrew but then I've never heard a performance as good as that in any audiobook I've listened to.

stop reading this, purchase this book and thank me later.