{"id":18,"date":"2018-10-07T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:51:43","slug":"books-heartshapedbox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/books\/books-heartshapedbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Book | Heart-Shaped Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Aging, self-absorbed rock star Judas Coyne has a thing for the macabre — his collection includes sketches from infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a trepanned skull from the 16th century, a used hangman’s noose, Aleister Crowley’s childhood chessboard, etc. \u2014 so when his assistant tells him about a ghost for sale on an online auction site, he immediately puts in a bid and purchases it.<\/p>\n

The black, heart-shaped box that Coyne receives in the mail not only contains the suit of a dead man but also his vengeance-obsessed spirit. The ghost, it turns out, is the stepfather of a young groupie who committed suicide after the 54-year-old Coyne callously used her up and threw her away. Now, determined to kill Coyne and anyone who aids him, the merciless ghost of Craddock McDermott begins his assault on the rocker’s sanity.<\/p>\n

Author(s):<\/strong>\u00a0Joe Hill
\nFirst release:<\/strong>\u00a02007
\nShorts collection:<\/strong>\u00a0No
\nDedication:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018For my Dad, one of the good ones\u2019
\nNomination(s):<\/strong> Yes<\/a>
\nMovie:<\/strong>\u00a0No<\/p>\n

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The book\/story is published with these cover(s):
\n<\/strong>(Click image to see full cover)
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US editions:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0061241431
\nARC Paperback
\nWilliam Morrow
\n2006<\/td>\n		9780061147937
\nHardcover
\nWilliam Morrow
\n2007<\/td>\n		9780061944895
\nPaperback
\nHarper
\n2009<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Information about edition(s):<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 There were #100 signed, tipped-in copies of the US ARC.<\/p>\n

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Subterranean Press limited editions:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9780061237980
\nHardcover
\nSubterranean Press
\n2007
\n–<\/span><\/td>\n		9780061237980
\nLettered Hardcover
\nSubterranean Press
\n2007
\n–<\/span><\/td>\n		9780061237980
\nHardcover
\nSubterranean Press
\n2007
\n2nd print<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Information about edition(s):<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 The Subterranean Press limited edition was first printed in three formats: A signed limited of #300 numbered from 201-500, a deluxe limited of #200 numbered from 1-200 and a lettered of #15 from A-O in traycase with deleted chapter, afterword & review.
\n\u00b7 A second print from Sub Press had two formats: Limited, but not numbered, of #400 with blue endpapers and signed unnumbered of #100 with grey endpapers and deleted chapter, afterword & review.<\/p>\n

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UK editions:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ARC
\nPaperback
\nGollancz
\n2006<\/td>\n		9780575079120
\nHardcover
\nGollancz
\n2007<\/td>\n		9780752889184
\nS\/L Hardcover
\nGollancz
\n2007<\/td>\n		9780575082151
\nPaperback
\nGollancz
\n2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9780575081864
\nPaperback
\nGollancz
\n2008<\/td>\n		9780575085428
\nPaperback
\nGollancz
\n2008<\/td>\n		9781473223066
\nHardcover
\nGollancz
\n2017<\/td>\n		9781473222700
\nPaperback
\nGollancz
\n2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Information about edition(s):<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 The UK hardcover\u00a0had some copies with a publisher-produced book plate on the title page, signed by Joe Hill. The first state dustjacket, initially priced at \u00a3 9.99 contains a praise from Ramsey Campbell.
\n\u00b7 A signed tipped-in edition with slipcased was produced by Gollancz of #1300.
\n\u00b7 In the 10th anniversary edition hardcover and paperback is included\u00a0The Tell-tale Heart: An Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Edition of Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.<\/p>\n

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Lividian Publications limited edition:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slipcased Hardcover
\nLividian Publications
\n2022<\/td>\n		Signature sheet
\nLividian Publications
\n2022<\/td>\n		Lettered Edition
\nLividian Publications
\n2022<\/td>\n		ARC
\nLividian Publications
\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Information about edition(s):
\n<\/strong>\u00b7 Edition of #1750
\n\u00b7 Contains from Joe The Lost First Chapter, Jude Confronts Global Warming, and an introduction by Joe Hill: The Tell-Tale Heart.<\/p>\n

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The story starts as follows:
\n<\/strong>Jude had a private collection.
\nHe had framed sketches of the Seven Dwarfs on the wall of his studio, in between his platinum records.\u00a0John Wayne Gacy had drawn them while he was in jail nad sent\u00a0them to him. Gacy liked\u00a0golden-age Disney almost as much as he liked molesting little kids; almost as much as he liked Jude\u2019s albums.
\nJude had the skull of a peasant who had been trepanned in the sixteenth century, to let the demons out. He kept\u00a0 a collection of pens jammed into the hole in the center of the cranium.
\nhe had a three-hundred-year-old confession, signed by a witch. \u201cI did spake with a black dogge who sayd hee wouldst\u00a0poison cows, drive horses mad\u00a0and\u00a0sicken children for me if I wouldst let him have my soule, and I sayd aye, and after did give him sucke at my breast.\u201d She was burned to death.<\/p>\n

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Other information:
\n<\/strong>\u00b7 Promocard & Keychain
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 <\/p>\n

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Nomination(s):<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
\n\u00b7 International Thriller Writers Inc award for Best First Novel<\/p>\n

Movie:
\n<\/strong>–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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