Heart-Shaped Box
A nail-biting ghost story that will keep you up at night
(Author) Joe Hill'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 ...
Joe Hill
Joe Hill was a Swedish-American labor activist and songwriter known for his most famous work, the book "The Heart-Song of a Rebel." His writing style combined powerful storytelling with social commentary, inspiring a generation of writers. Hill's key contribution to literature was his ability to give a voice to the marginalized and oppressed.
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