"Scary, Horror, Suspense, Mystery, and FANTASTIC!!!!!!"
Reviewed by Rachael Dimond
Posted July 10, 2007
Thriller Psychological | Horror
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.
SUMMARY
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. I will "sell" my
stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder. . . .
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 ghosts�of 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. Waiting�with a
gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand.
. . .
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