Bøger af Joe Hill

The spine-tingling, bone-chilling novel of supernatural suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Horns?now an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings.?A masterwork of horror.?? Time Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be.Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. The journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.Then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble...and finds her way to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie's evil is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn't stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge. He's after something very special?something Vic can never replace.As a life-and-death battle of wills builds, Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all?or die trying.

A distress signal goes out from a ghost ship that s been lost for over forty years but what the salvage team finds upon their arrival will haunt them for the rest of their lives. New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill tempts you to explore the wreckage and discover where ghost stories start.

A superb collection of short stories from an award-winning author.

¡Ahora una serie original de Netflix! Llamada una "obra maestra moderna" por el sitio de revisión de medios The A.V. Club, Locke & Key cuenta una extensa historia acerca de familia y magia, patrimonio y dolor, bien y mal.El aclamado novelista de suspenso y autor más vendido del diario New York Times, Joe Hill (The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box) ha creado una apasionante historia de fantasía oscura y de maravilla, con asombrosas ilustraciones por Gabriel Rodríguez, que, así como las puertas de la casa llamada Keyhouse, transformarán a todos los que la abren. La historia épica comienza aquí: Bienvenidos a Lovecraft.Después del espantoso asesinato de su padre en una violenta invasión a su hogar, los niños Locke regresan a la casa de su infancia llamada Keyhouse en el pueblo aislado de Lovecraft, Massachusetts. Su madre, Nina, está demasiado atrapada en su dolor, además de una botella de vino, para darse cuenta de que todo en Keyhouse no es lo que parece: demasiadas puertas cerradas, demasiadas preguntas sin respuesta. Los niños mayores Tyler y Kinsey no resultan mucho mejor. Pero no el hijo menor, Bode, quien rápidamente encuentra a una nueva amiga que vive en un pozo vacío y a un juguete nuevo, una llave, la cual ofrece horas de entretenimiento espirituoso. Pero, de nuevo, todo dentro de Keyhouse no es lo que parece, y no todas las puertas están destinadas a ser abiertas. Pronto, los horrores viejos y nuevos, reales e imaginarios, vendrán furiosos detrás de la familia Locke y los secretos que guardan.Locke y Key, Vol. 1 presenta una introducción escrita por Robert Crais, autor de la exitosa serie de novelas policiacas Elvis Cole.

Comedy is hard... but dying is easy! From New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill (Locke & Key) comes this new graphic novel mystery.Meet Syd "Sh*t-Talk" Homes, a disgraced ex-cop turned bitter stand-up comic turned... possible felon? Carl Dixon is on the verge of comedy superstardom and he got there the dirty way: by stealing jokes. He''s got a killer act, an ugly past, and more enemies than punch-lines. So when someone asks Syd Homes how much it would cost to have Dixon killed, Syd isn''t surprised in the slightest. But, once he''s accused, he''s on the run and it''s going to take all of his investigative chops to suss out the real killer before he gets caught.This crime thriller by writer Joe Hill and artist Martin Simmonds follows in the tradition of fair-play mysteries inviting readers to solve the murder before Syd does!

Chilling stories from a master of horror, including two collaborations with Stephen King. IN THE TALL GRASS will be a netflix film in late 2019.

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 "e;sell"e; 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 ghostsof 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. Waitingwith a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand. . . .A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.

The NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling author of HEART-SHAPED BOX returns with HORNS: a relentless new supernatural thriller.

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.The fireman is coming. Stay cool.No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else its Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodiesbefore causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now shes discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakobs dismay, Harper wants to liveat least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child.Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squadsarmed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isnt as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighters jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Firemans secrets before her lifeand that of her unborn childgoes up in smoke.

Joe Hill's critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning debut chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, heralded the arrival of new royalty onto the dark fantasy scene. With Horns, he polishes his well-deserved crown. A twisted, terrifying new novel of psychological and supernatural suspense, Horns is a devilishly original triumph for the Ray Bradbury Fellowship recipient whose story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, was also honored with a Bram Stoker Awardand whose emotionally powerful and macabre work has been praised by the New York Times as, "e;wild, mesmerizing, perversely wittya Valentine from hell."e;

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 purchase, an item he discovered on the Internet:I will sell my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder . . .For a thousand dollars, Jude has become the owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. Suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude's restored Mustang . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting?with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand . . .

The legend of Joe Hill, brought to life through his letters, songs, and writings.

Every little boy dreams about putting on a cape and soaring up, up, and away... but what if one day that dream were to come true?Eric was like every other eight-year-old boy, until a tragic accident changed his life forever. The Cape explores the dark side of power, as the adult Eric-a confused and broken man-takes to the skies... and sets out to exact a terrible vengeance on everyone who ever disappointed him.This critically acclaimed, Eisner Award-nominated story, written by Jason Ciaramella, based on the short story by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, with art by Zach Howard and Nelson Daniel, smashes the classic superhero myth, and wraps the bloody wreckage in a bright blue shroud: THE CAPE.

Ignatius Martin Perrish vågner en morgen med gevaldige tømmermænd og opdager, at han har fået horn i panden. Han tror først, det bare er noget, han forestiller sig - et udtryk for det helvede, han har befundet sig i, siden hans kæreste blev brutalt myrdet for et år siden. Ig selv har været den eneste mistænkte, og alle i byen tror, han kun er sluppet for tiltale, fordi hans rige forældre har holdt hånden over ham. Alle, selv Gud, synes at have vendt ham ryggen.For hornene er virkelige nok - alt for virkelige. Folk omkring ham får en sær trang til at betro ham deres mest forbudte tanker, og Ig beslutter sig for at bruge sit nye makabre talent i jagten på morderen, der ødelagde hans liv. Troen på det gode i mennesket har kun bragt ham sorg og udstødelse, så nu skal ret være ret og Djævlen have, hvad der tilkommer ham.