Sooner or later, the dead catch up. . . .
Judas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual, the grotesque: A cookbook for cannibals. A used hangmanโs noose. A snuff film. Usually the objects were sent by the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made him rich.
But this time, when his personal assistant told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet, Jude didnโt think twice. But he should have. Of all the ghosts around himโthe abusive father, the battered, resentful child Jude once was, the bandmates he betrayed, Anna, the suicidal girl he loved and dumpedโthis new one means to haunt him all the way to hell.
His new acquisitionโdelivered to his doorstep in a black heart-shaped boxโis Annaโs vengeful stepdaddy. Martin Craddock swears heโs going to settle up with Jude for ruining his daughterโs life. Craddock is everywhere: on the other side of the bedroom door; in Judeโs restored vintage Mustang; outside his window, on his television screen. In his hand , a gleaming razorblade swinging from a chain.
And now the jaded rock star whoโs seen it all, done it all, has never been so afraid. . . .
Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Awardโwinning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).