Only 29 days until Halloween! And this year I'm going to participate in the Frightful Fall Read-a-Thon hosted by Michelle, the True Book Addict at Castle Macabre.
The scary book I picked to read this year is "Heart-Shaped Box" by Joe Hill (a/k/a Stephen King's son). Named after the Nirvana song, supposedly there are a bunch of rock, metal and punk music references in the book so I'm sure I'll love that part of it. It's a ghost story published in 2007 and made it to #8 on the New York Time Bestseller list. And it won and Audie Award for best Thriller/Suspense, 2008 so it should be a good listen.
Description from Audible:
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 widely known. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-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. 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 hand.
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- Rachel
4 comments:
Welcome to the read-a-thon, Rachel! So glad you're joining us. Thanks for sharing about Joe's book. I have it and I thought I knew a lot about him, but I had no idea the book was named after the Nirvana song (one of my favorite bands of all time).
Happy scary reading!
That should be really interesting, are you going to be dressing up too? I know silly question. Great blog!
Good luck with your reading. I read that one and I await your thoughts!
#Tycoon Ha! Dress up while I'm reading it? Only in my pj's :)
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