Jude Coyne was the lead singer of a famous rock band, until his band members died and everything fell apart. Now in his fifties, Jude spends his time romancing women, one after another, and collecting weird things.
When Jude's personal assistant, Danny, receives an email from an online auction site about a ghost for sale, they jump at the chance to bid on it. The seller is auctioning off her stepfather's old suit and believes that wherever the suit goes, his ghost will go with it. Jude pays $1,000 to outbid everyone.
When the suit arrives in a heart shaped box, Jude doesn't think much of it. He doubts there will be a real ghost accompanying the suit. But when a real ghost does appear, things get very dangerous.
Jude's girlfriend Marybeth, nicknamed Georgia, lives with him. She starts to get a funny feeling about the suit and wants to get rid of it. But when Jude contacts the seller he finds out this sale was set up deliberately by his ex girlfriend's sister. Apparently his ex girlfriend's stepfather's ghost is here to make him pay for hurting his stepdaughter.
There is no returning the suit or the ghost. The ghost is trying to make Jude regret his existence and will hurt anyone in his path to get to him. Will Jude and Georgia be able to run from this ghost or will he follow them and haunt them forever?
Jude and Georgia attempt to flee the ghost in their car but anyone who attempts to help them will die. How can they kill something that is already dead? Will they lose their minds while running from the ghost? Is there a deeper mystery behind the reason for the ghost hunting them? Will they make it out alive?
HEART SHAPED BOX is a spooky and thrilling ghost story that will keep you up all night turning the pages. This is a truly suspenseful and scary book that will make your heart pound, your hands sweat and force you to clench your teeth so hard from the intensity of the story. HEART SHAPED BOX is the best debut book that I have ever read and I can't wait for more books by Joe Hill.
Mystery, thriller, and ghost story fans will all find something to their liking in this powerful novel. I highly recommend HEART SHAPED BOX to readers who are looking for a gripping novel that they won't be able to put down.
Judas Coyne
is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . .
. a used
hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal
rock god, his
taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of
fans as
the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he
possesses is as
unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for
sale on
the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help
but reach
for his wallet.
For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of
a dead
man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He
isn't afraid.
He has spent a lifetime coping with ghostsรฏยฟยฝof an abusive
father, of the
lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed.
What's one
more?
But what UPS delivers to his door in a black
heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no
benign
conversation piece. It's the real thing.
And
suddenly the
suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door
. . .
seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang . . . standing
outside his
window . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waitingรฏยฟยฝwith a
gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand.
. . .
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