Heart-Shaped Box

Resumen del libro

'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...

Biografía del autor

Joe Hill es autor de novelas superventas y premiadas como El traje del muerto (2007), Cuernos (2010; Nocturna, 2022), NOS4A2: Nosferatu (2013; Nocturna, 2020) -adaptada a la televisión por AMC- y Fuego (2016; Nocturna, 2017) -próximamente llevada al cine por la 20th Century Fox-. Adema s, ha cultivado el ge nero del relato con El teléfono negro: Fantasmas (2005; Nocturna, 2023) y A tumba abierta (2019; Nocturna, 2021), el de la novela corta con Tiempo extran o (2017; Nocturna, 2018) y el del co mic con Locke x{0026} Key (2009-2013).